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ASIA  MINOR. 


Archaeologists  agree  that  Asia  Minor  is  the  country  from 
which,  in  the  near  future,  startling,  and  even  dazzling  additions 
to  our  knowledge  of  the  past  will  be  made.  So  far  as  the  Hit- 
tites  are  concerned  these  additions  will  be  history  itself,  for 
they  will  actually  create  the  history  of  humanity  just  before  the 
beginnings  of  written  history,  a  past  so  dim  and  so  distant  that 
even  the  constitutionally  inquisitive  Greek  knew  almost  nothing 
of  or  about  it,  though  strangely  enough,  he  was  its  immediate 
inheritor  and  passed  it  on  to  us. 

But  the  nearer  past  also,  the  historic  past,  the  Phrygian, 
Hellenic,  Hellenistic  past,  the  Graeco-Roman  and  the  Early 
Christian  past  in  Asia  Minor,  claims,  aye,  demands,  earnest,  im- 
mediate, and  long-continued  investigation,  not  to  speak  of  the 
Seljukian,  the  Crusading,  and  even  the  Turkish  past. 

For  the  last  thirty  years  a  small  band  of  scholars  has  been 
eager  to  collect  ancient  inscriptions,  to  study  ancient  monu- 
ments, to  locate  ancient  cities  and  to  create  the  ancient  map. 
But  the  ancient  documents  that  could  be  found  easily,  as  the 
result  of  leisurely  journeys  through  Asia  Minor,  have  in  great 
measure  been  garnered  already,  largely  through. the  efforts  of 
Sir  William  M.  Ramsay  and  other  travellers  trained  by  him  in 
surface  research,  one  of  whom  is  the  present  writer  and  peti- 
tioner. But  what  still  remains  to  be  done  is  of  infinitely  greater 
importance  than  that  which  has  already  been  accomplished. 
Witness  the  discovery  of  the  documentary  proof  that  Boghaz- 
kieui  was  really  the  capital  of  the  Hittite  empire,  a  thing  long 
suspected  it  is  true,  but  never  proved  till  now,  for  none  could 
get  the  proof  till  now.  And  yet  there  was  that  precious  docu- 
ment, extant,  actually  extant,  but  lying  beneath  the  ground, 
where  it  had  lain  for  maybe  three  millennia,  waiting  for  the 
man  to  come  and  discover  it,  and  with  its  help  write  a  new  and 
a  splendid  page  of  history. 


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Results  to  Be  Expected  from  Surface  Research. 

The  additions  to  the  sum  of  human  knowledge  that  may  be 
expected  from  a  systematic  search  for  everything  that  is  above 
ground  in  Asia  Minor  will  be  manifold  in  nature.  Such  a  sys- 
tematic search  will  throw  light  on  ancient  geography,  on  an- 
cient history  and  legislation,  whether  local,  regal,  imperial,  or 
municipal,  on  the  history  of  Christianity  in  the  earlier  centuries 
of  our  era,  on  customs  and  manners,  on  pagan  religious  rites, 
ceremonies,  and  usages,  on  the  location  and  importance  of  an- 
cient cities,  on  ancient  roads  and  road  systems,  trade-routes  and 
international  commerce,  in  short,  on  every  conceivable  subject 
affected  by  the  discovery  and  proper  assimilation  of  Greek  and 
Latin  inscriptions,  combined  with  a  patient  study  of  the 
topography,  geography,  and  local  history.  The  material  col- 
lected in  this  way  is  much  more  difficult  to  assimilate,  much 
more  difficult  to  fit  into  its  proper  place,  its  own  special  niche 
or  corner  in  history  or  geography  than  is  the  material  gained 
by  excavations.  It  therefore  demands  an  expert  with  broader 
knowledge,  more  balanced  judgment,  and  keener  instincts  than 
does  the  material  gained  by  excavations.  Therefore  surface 
research  is  best  managed  in  connexion  with  excavations. 

Chartography  a  Surface  Exploration. 

The  extant  maps  of  Asia  Minor  in  general  are  based  on  dead- 
reckoning  by  the  time  consumed  in  the  march  of  a  horse.  The 
convention  upon  which  geographers  have  had  to  work  is  that  in 
one  hour  an  average  horse  will  pass  over  three  miles  and  one- 
half.  But  this  convention  is  wholly  unsatisfactory ;  Ramsay  has 
found  that  the  driving  time  will  vary  between  six  and  twelve 
minutes  per  kilometer,  for  the  horse  will  travel  rapidly  or 
slowly,  as  the  road  is  good  or  poor,  or  as  it  traverses  level  or 
hilly  ground.  There  is  no  trustworthy  map  of  Asia  minor,  for 
all  alike  are  crude  and  inaccurate.  There  is  not  a  single  city  on 
the  plateau  of  Asia  Minor,  apart  from  the  few  railway  surveys, 
whose  situation  is  certain  within  several  miles.  Owing  to  this 
fact  route  surveys,  however  good,  however  much  they  may  ap- 


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— 5— 

proach  perfection,  whether  made  by  Kiepert,  Ramsay,  von 
Diest,  Admiral  Spratt,  or  Major  Bennett,  are  mere  makeshifts. 
Therefore  in  adapting  special  route  surveys  to  the  general  map 
this  uncertainty  is  exasperating  to  travelling  scholars,  because 
they  cannot  make  their  own  routes  fit  into  the  general  scheme. 

Ancient  Roads  a  Surface  Exploration. 

The  study  of  ancient  roads  in  general  is  most  important,  diffi- 
cult, and  fascinating.  In  earliest  times  the  road-system  through- 
out Asia  Minor  led  to  and  centered  in  the  capital  of  the  Hittite 
empire,  a  capital  whose  site  was  that  of  the  modern  Boghaz- 
kieui,  though  the  name  of  the  city  itself  is  as  yet  unknown. 

Later  on  the  road-system  led  to  and  centered  in  Ephesus,  at 
one  extreme,  and  Susa,  at  the  other.  Under  early  Roman  rule 
the  roads  continued  to  point  to  Ephesus,  because  Ephesus 
pointed  to  Rome.  With  the  change  in  the  seat  of  empire  the 
road-system  pointed  to  and  centered  in  Constantinople;  and 
similarly  Iconium  was  its  center  in  Seljukian  times. 

In  addition  to  these  grand  centers  of  the  various  road-sys- 
tems there  were,  in  the  Roman  period,  provincial  centers  of 
provincial  road-systems;  and  distances  were  measured  from 
these  provincial  centers.  All  sorts  of  geographical  problems 
depend  upon  the  accurate  fixing  and  locating  of  the  actual 
track,  or  line,  of  these  roads,  whether  international  or  provin- 
cial. But  it  is  more  imperative  that  the  lines  of  the  roads  in 
the  Roman  period  be  fixed  with  entire  accuracy. 

Method  of  Conducting  Surface  Research. 

The  aim  of  the  leader  of  the  expedition  would  be  to  fix  upon 
a  given  Province,  whether  Cappadocia,  Lycia,  Phrygia,  Cilicia, 
Pamphylia,  or  what  not,  and  to  visit,  perhaps  repeatedly,  every 
village  in  that  Province,  district  by  district;  to  collect  every 
Greek,  Latin,  or  Hittite  inscription  that  is  above  ground;  to 
study,  plan,  and  photograph  every  monument  of  antiquity  and 
every  Early  Christian  Church;  to  get  every  scrap  of  informa- 
tion that  may  be  gathered  from  the  lips  of  the  natives.     Ex- 


— 6— 

perience  has  taught  travelling  archaeologists  that  the  most  ef- 
fective method  of  conducting  surface  research  is  to  encamp  for 
some  time  at  a  given  town  or  village  and  make  excursions 
therefrom  as  a  center,  and  to  repeat  this  in  consecutive  years. 
This  plan  makes  the  presence  of  the  exploring  party  known  to 
everybody  in  the  vicinity ;  it  puts  the  travellers  on  terms  of 
friendship  and  intimacy  with  the  natives;  it  allays  their  ever 
alert  suspicion  and  overcomes  their  reluctance  to  tell  of  antiqui- 
ties; and  it  brings  in  information  that  could  not  be  had  by 
merely  journeying  through  the  country.  For  many  ears,  and 
many  eyes,  and  many  tongues  hear,  see,  and  impart 'more  than 
a  lone  traveller  can  hope  for.  In  short  it  is  the  principle  of 
intensive  farming  applied  to  surface  research. 

Such  an  expedition  would  accomplish  something  really  sub- 
stantial along  the  lines  mentioned,  something  that  would  be  a 
permanent  gain  for  the  science  of  the  past,  for  archaeology, 
history,  geography,  topography,  religion,  legislation,  manners, 
customs,  etc.,  from  prehistoric,  that  is,  from  pre-hellenic,  times 
down  to  the  present  day. 

Sore  Need  for  Haste  in  Doing  Surface  Research. 

There  is  a  crying  need  for  great  haste  in  putting  into  the  field 
an  expedition  for  surface  research.  The  reason  for  haste  is  the 
fact  that  ancient  monuments  of  every  kind,  whether  structural, 
sculptural,  or  epigraphical  are  being  destroyed  every  day  with 
pitiful  remorselessness.  The  Turks,  and  even  the  Christians, 
are  using  the  ancient  stones  of  every  kind  for  building  ma- 
terials, especially  in  the  construction  of  mosques,  fountains, 
barracks,  mussafir  odas,  schools,  etc.  But  besides  that  the 
actual  annihilation  of  buildings,  of  sculptured  and  inscribed 
stones,  is  brought  about  in  two  ways,  firstly,  by  being  burned  to 
make  lime,  and,  secondly,  by  being  destroyed  ruthlessly  because 
of  superstition  or  religion.  There  is  a  universally  prevalent  be- 
lief that  the  hewn,  sculptured,  or  inscribed  stones  that  date  from 
pagan  or  Christian  antiquity  contain  gold  which  was  secreted 
in  their  interior  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  country  at  the  time 
of  the  Seljuk  or  Turkish  conquest.    Therefore  the  searcher  for 


— 7— 

gold  attacks  the  stones  with  drill  and  maul  and  blows  them  up 
with  gunpowder,  a  fate  which  befell  the  splendid  lion  of  Chae- 
ronaea.  On  the  other  hand  the  religious  fanatic  destroys  an- 
cient stones,  whether  they  be  sculptured  or  inscribed,  because 
sculpture  is  an  offense  in  his  nostrils,  and  inscriptions  carved  on 
stone  by  the  detested  infidels,  whether  Pagan  or  Christian,  are 
hated  all  the  more  by  the  Moslems,  because,  in  their  ignorance, 
they  are  unable  to  read  the  inscriptions  which  tell  where 
treasure  was  hidden  by  the  Giaours  at  the  time  of  the  Turkish 
conquest.  Therefore,  to  prevent  the  interloping  archaeologists 
from  reaping  a  golden  harvest  that  is  denied  to  the  faithful, 
but  ignorant,  Moslem,  he  takes  hammer  and  chisel  and  hacks 
away  the  inscription,  or  at  least  he  defaces  it  to  the  best  of  his 
ability ;  especially  if  the  stone  bears  a  cross — that  hated  symbol. 

When  Leake  travelled,  the  city  walls  of  Iconium  were  still 
full  of  inscribed  stones  and  works  of  sculpture.  After  the  de- 
struction of  Iconium  by  Ibrahim  Pasha  a  new  city  was  built 
adjoining  the  old  city.  The  ancient  stones  which  formed  the 
city  walls  were  utilized  in  building  the  new  city.  When  I 
travelled,  the  core  of  the  old  city  walls,  which  consisted  origin- 
ally of  mud,  was  still  full  of  the  traces  of  the  impressions  which 
the  mud  had  made  of  inscriptions  and  works  of  sculpture.  All 
the  stones  had  perished  beyond  recovery. 

Again,  in  his  Historical  Geography  (p.  333),  a  book  published 
not  a  great  many  years  ago,  Ramsay  mentions,  near  Iconium, 
''the  remains  of  a  fine  and  large  Christian  Church,"  but  in  1900 
Crowfoot  found  scarcely  ''one  stone  standing  upon  another." 

Therefore,  if  we  would  save  all  these  disjecta  membra  of  a 
glorious  antiquity  we  must  be  up  and  doing.  This  fact  is  well 
recognized  in  Europe,  thanks  chiefly  to  Sir  William  M.  Ramsay, 
who  has  spent  thirty  years  of  his  life  in  surface  research  in 
Asia  Minor. 

In  1907  the  present  writer,  who  had  himself  spent  years  in 
surface  research,  organized  a  Cornell  Expedition  to  Asia  Minor, 
in  order  thereby  to  aid  in  snatching  some  bits  of  knowledge 
from  the  burning.  The  results  of  the  work  of  the  Cornell  Ex- 
pedition will  be  published  during  1911. 


— 8— 

Initial  Outlay  for  Surface  Research. 

The  initial  equipment  for  surface  research  would  include 
scientific  instruments,  photographic  outfits  and  supplies  for  each 
member  of  the  expedition,  tents,  camp  equipments,  and  cooking 
outfits  for  each  member  of  the  expedition, — in  order  to  enable 
each  man  to  work  independently  and  separately  and  along  sepa- 
rate routes, — riding  horses,  pack-mules,  two-wheeled  gigs, 
trocheameters,  etc.  But  this  initial  outlay,  once  made,  would 
not  be  an  annual  expense,  except  that  from  time  to  time  renew- 
als will  have  to  be  made,  as  this  or  that  article,  implement,  or 
animal  becomes  useless,  from  whatever  cause. 

Excavations. 

It  may  be  expected  confidently  that  large  additions  to  the 
sum  of  human  knowledge  will  result  from  surface  explorations 
in  Asia  Minor,  but  the  most  priceless  treasures  for  archaeology, 
for  history,  for  art,  for  architecture,  lie  buried  beneath  the  soil. 
Here  only  excavations  will  avail,  and  for  that  reason  systematic 
excavations  pursued  to  an  absolute  finish,  should  go  hand  in 
hand  with  the  systematic  exploration  of  the  surface. 

Sites  Belonging  to  the  Hittite  Period. 

It  cannot  be  doubted  that  excavations  will  greatly  advance 
the  science  of  the  past,  and  will  throw  a  bright  light  upon  the 
history  of  the  world  for  nearly  three  millenniums.  It  would 
begin  at  a  time  prior  to  the  dawn  of  Greek  history,  and  the 
story  that  will  be  told  by  the  great  mounds  of  Tyana,  Iconium, 
Caesarea-Mazaca,  and  Melitene,  all  of  them  Hittite  cities,  will 
"stupefy  and  astound"  the  world,  to  use  the  words  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam M.  Ramsay.  These  mounds  vary  in  size  somewhat ;  that  of 
Tyana  covers  approximately  forty  acres,  and  this  mound,  forty 
acres  in  extent,  is  the  ancient  Hittite  city  of  Tyana.  Conditions 
similar  to  those  already  mentioned  prevail  at  other  Hittite  sites. 
The  spade  alone  can  reveal  the  contents  of  these  mounds,  and  in 
those  mounds  there  lies  buried  a  story  about  which  the  world  of 
scholars  is  burning  to  hear.    Hittite  sculptures  lie  so  near  the 


— 9— 

surface  of  the  great  mound  of  Melitene  that  they  were  prac- 
tically protruding  from  it  until  removed  some  three  years  ago ; 
the  mounds  of  Caesarea-Mazaca  and  especially  that  of  Iconium 
are  equally  promising.  Besides  these  there  are  a  large  number 
of  Hittite  sites  all  over  Asia  Minor ;  they  must  all  be  excavated, 
as  the  very  names  of  Ivriz,  Fassiler,  El  Flatun  Punar  at  once 
suggest. 

Sites  belonging  to  the  Phrygian  Period. 

"What,  in  the  absence  of  a  real  name,  may  be  called  "Midas- 
town,"  with  its  many  tombs  of  Phrygian  kings,  so  famed  in 
mythical  history,  represents  the  Phrygian  empire  which  suc- 
ceeded that  of  the  Hittites.  The  Acropolis  (Pidgmish  Kale, 
Digged  Castle,  so  called  because  it  was  hewn  down  into  the 
solid  rock)  and  the  grave  monuments  of  ''Midastown"  and  of 
the  entire  adjacent  region  must  be  drawn  and  mapped,  and  ex- 
cavations must  be  made  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  tombs  of 
the  Kings.  Hogarth  in  his  ** Accidents  of  an  Antiquary's  Life," 
which  has  just  appeared  (April,  1910),  says  on  page  9,  "I  have 
seen  no  region  so  thickly  set  with  strange  memorials  of  the 
past,  and  none  to  which  I  would  more  joyfully  return.  Some 
day  when  diggers  uncover  the  relics  of  that  Midaean  monarchy 
which  seemed  to  the  early  Greeks  of  Asia  the  eldest  and  most 
God-like  of  Powers,  may  I  be  there  to  see!"  And  may  the 
present  writer  be  there  to  see !  The  rock-cut  tombs  of  Paphla- 
gonia  and  of  Lycia  must  also  be  investigated  and  published  in 
a  similar  way.    This  has  long  been  a  crying  need. 

Sites  belonging  to  the  Hellenic  Period. 

The  Greek  cities  of  the  southern  and  western  seaboard  of 
Asia  Minor  have  but  begun  to  tell  us  their  wonderful  tale  of  the 
achievements  and  civilization  of  Hellas.  Sooner  or  later  we 
must  begin  with  the  confederated  cities  of  ancient  Lycia  and 
pass  round  the  sea-front  to  Sinope  and  Trapezus — all  must  and 
will  be  excavated,  for  idealism  is  still  to  be  reckoned  with.  In 
particular  Colophon  and    Lebedos  will    reveal    unadulterated 


—10— 

Greek  civilization  in  Ionia  from  its  inception  down  to  the  time 
of  Lysimachus,  who  transferred  the  inhabitants  of  those  cities 
in  a  body  to  his  new  Ephesus.  Therefore  Colophon  and  Lebedos 
will  present  pure  Hellenism,  unaffected  by  the  civilization  of 
the  Hellenistic  and  Roman  periods. 

Sites  belonging  to  the  Hellenistic  and  Roman  Period. 

The  great  cities  that  flourished  from  the  time  of  Alexander 
the  Great  and  throughout  the  Roman  period  are  very  numerous, 
and  all  of  them  need  to  be  excavated,  for  they  all  have  history 
buried  beneath  the  soil  that  covers  them.  In  the  first  instance 
may  be  mentioned  Antioch,  that  splendid  city,  where  the  title  of 
Christian  was  first  used.  Tarsus,  Perge,  Xanthus,  etc.  Then, 
following  in  the  track  of  St.  Paul,  come  Laodicea  in  the  Lycus 
valley,  Hierapolis,  Colossae,  Antioch  in  Pisidia,  etc.,  and  many 
others  that  illustrate  the  Hellenistic  and  GraBCO-Roman  civiliza- 
tion. 

Sites  belonging  to  the  Early  Christian  and  Byzantine  Period. 

The  study  of  the  Churches  of  the  early  Christian  and  Byzan- 
tine period  is  imperatively  necessary,  and  should  begin  at  once. 
These  churches  are  scattered  all  over  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  It 
is  discreditable  to  Christendom  that  they  have  been  neglected. 
They  have  a  wonderful  story  to  tell  to  students  of  the  history  of 
art  and  architecture,  as  is  abundantly  shown  by  Strzy gowski 's 
**Kleinasien  ein  Neuland  der  Kunstgeschichte. "  They  must  be 
restored  in  drawings  by  expert  architects,  in  order  to  discover 
the  architectural  movement  which  created  them.  All  other 
monuments  of  early  Christian  art  must  be  gathered  up  and  pre- 
served, ere  they  perish  beyond  recall.  As  will  be  seen  in  letters 
printed  below,  European  scholars  insist  that  this  work  for  the 
Early  Christian  period  be  undertaken  immediately. 

The  Troglodytic  Dwellings  of  Cappadocia. 

The  thousands  of  artificial  temples,  dwellings,  churches, 
chapels,  which  are  excavated  in  the  beautiful  cones  and  cliffs  of 


—11— 

central  Cappadocia,  have  never  been  studied,  much  less  sur- 
veyed and  published;  and  yet  they  constitute  one  of  the  won- 
ders of  the  world  (see  the  writer's  article  in  the  Century  for 
September,  1900).  The  earliest  of  these  cone  and  cliff  dwellings 
probably  go  back  to  the  Hittite  period,  as  the  cones  certainly  do, 
but  all  periods  are  represented:  the  Hittite,  the  Hellenic,  the 
Christian.  The  walls  of  many  of  the  Christian  chapels  (in  the 
cliffs  and  cones)  are  still  covered  with  paintings,  mostly  badly 
weathered.  These  dwellings  alone  would  keep  a  large  force  of 
men  busy  for  several  years. 

Incidentally  it  may  be  stated  that  the  Anthropologist  has 
a  tremendous  field  for  his  activities  in  Asia  Minor,  where  the 
aboriginal  inhabitants  are  still  extant,  where  the  old  Gauls  may 
still  be  pointed  out,  where  the  primitive  Troglodyte  of  the 
Bakluzan  Dere  and  the  degraded  natives  of  the  Taurus  moun- 
tains are  offset  by  a  host  of  interloping  Asiatics  of  low  estate. 

Monuments  belonging  to  the  Seljuk  Period. 

The  splendid  architecture  and  art  of  the  Seljuk  period,  though 
borrowed  from  Hellas,  is  well  worthy  of  study  and  investigation 
at  the  hands  of  expert  architects.  The  glorious,  but  alas  ruined, 
Mosques  of  Seljuk  Konia,  Sivas,  and  other  cities  cry  aloud  for 
preservation  in  proper  publications — (see  Wiegand's  letter). 
The  same  is  true  of  the  long  series  of  ruined  or  ruinous  kahns 
that  are  scattered  up  and  down  the  old  Seljuk  empire,  the  chief 
and  king  of  them  all  being  that  princely  pile,  the  Sultan  Kahn. 
Incidentally,  too,  these  Kahns  tell  a  story  of  the  trade-routes  in 
the  Seljuk  period. 

Crusaders. 

The  passes  of  the  Taurus  mountains  from  Cataonia  westwards 
must  be  studied  carefully  and  conscientiously  in  connexion  with 
the  movements  of  the  Crusaders. 

Publication  of  Results. 

As  Freiherr  Hiller  von  Gaertringen  of  the  University  of  Berlin 
points  out,  an  archaeological  expedition  is  judged  by  scholars 


—12— 

not  by  its  good  intentions,  nor  even  by  the  splendid  discoveries 
it  may  make,  but  solely  by  its  published  results.  And  these 
publications  must  be  made  quickly,  as  quickly  as  is  consistent 
with  scholarly  accuracy.  Preliminary  reports  may  be  made,  but 
the  final  publication  of  the  results  of  research  in  a  given  district 
or  Province  should  not  be  made  until  the  excavations  shall  have 
been  completed  in  that  district  or  Province.  Then  an  exhaustive 
monograph,  by  the  whole  staff  of  excavators  and  investigators, 
on  the  work  done  in  the  entire  region  should  be  given  to  the 
world  at  once.  Such  a  monograph,  containing  finished  studies, 
would  be  of  fundamental  and  permanent  value  to  all  classes  of 
students  of  antiquity,  and  it  would  confer  honour  upon  the  in- 
stitution promoting  the  work  and  upon  our  country  at  large. 

Scope  of  Appropriations. 

The  appropriations  of  an  institution  that  stands  for  pure 
idealism  should  go  to  the  furtherance  of  projects  of  scope  so 
wide  that  they  embrace  the  whole  world,  to  the  furtherance  of 
projects  whose  results  may  be  claimed  by  all  mankind  as  a  pos- 
session forever.  Such  a  project  of  universal  human  interest  is 
this  present  one. 

The  work  done  hitherto  by  America  in  archaeological  research 
has  always  been  unsatisfactory,  has  always  been  incomplete, 
and  with  few  exceptions  it  will  have  to  be  done  over  again  by 
more  scientific,  more  systematic  expeditions  working  with  larger 
resources ;  for  the  research  done  by  Americans  has  always  been 
crippled  by  slender  and  inadequate  means.  It  is  time  to  do 
really  scientific,  systematic,  exhaustive  work  pursued  to  a  finish, 
work  that  may  be  safely  compared  with  that  done  by  France, 
Germany,  and  Austria,  whose  governments,  understanding  the 
value  and  importance  of  real  idealism  in  molding  national  char- 
acter, supply  their  scholars  with  ample  means  wherewith  to 
carry  on  research. 

Americans  cannot  hope  for  similar  subventions  from  their 
government,  but  they  can,  and  they  do,  hope  for  them  from  an 
institution  which,  from  its  very  inception,  is  based  on  pure  and 
exalted  idealism.    It  is  for  such  an  expedition  that  the  writer  is 


—13— 

pleading,  for  an  expedition  thoroughly  equipped  with  special- 
ists and  with  ample  resources  at  its  command.  For  if  stinted  in 
properly  qualified  men  or  in  money  the  expedition  will  be  handi- 
capped and  rendered  inefficient  from  the  outset. 

The  Personnel  of  the  Expedition. 

In  view  of  his  past  achievements  the  present  writer  would  beg 
to  lead  the  expedition  and  he  would  devote  himself  permanently 
to  the  work.  Other  members  of  the  expedition  might  perhaps 
be  borrowed  annually  from  the  faculties  of  the  various  Universi- 
ties of  America.  Many  young  scholars,  Ph.D.  graduates,  could 
be  had  for  a  trifle  in  excess  of  their  expenses,  for  the  sake  of 
the  training  they  would  get  and  the  opportunity  afforded  them 
of  seeing  historic  lands.  Such  Apprentices  could  be  utilized  in 
many  ways  to  the  very  great  advantage  of  the  expedition  and  to 
the  great  advantage  of  scholarship  in  America. 

But  the  plan  of  borrowing  Professors  annually  from  the  sev- 
eral Universities  would  be  vexatious  and  unsatisfactory,  be- 
cause it  would  make  impossible  any  real  continuity  in  the  work 
of  research,  and  for  that  reason  a  number  of  Research  Associ- 
ates and  Research  Assistants  should  form,  with  the  Director, 
the  permanent  staff  of  the  expedition.  As  time  goes  on  the 
Apprentices  will  have  become  trained  experts,  and  possible  gaps 
in  the  permanent  staff  would  naturally  be  filled  from  their 
ranks. 

It  may  be  assumed  that  these  experts  would  have  to  make 
provision  for  their  families,  apart  from  their  travelling  and  field 
expenses,  and  therefore  living  salaries  will  have  to  be  paid 
them. 

The  personnel  of  the  expedition  for  surface  research  would 
consist  in  part  of  the  same  men  who  conduct  the  work  of  exca- 
vation, namely,  of  a  number  of  archaeologists,  two  chartograph- 
ers,  at  least  two  professional  photographers,  a  physician  and 
surgeon.  The  excavating  party  would  consist  of  the  above- 
mentioned  men,  and,  in  addition,  of  two  or  more  expert  archi- 
tects,,two  trained  engineers,  a  professional  nurse  (or  a  second 
physician  and  surgeon)  and  several  stenographers  and   type- 


—14— 

writers.  The  history  of  the  excavations  will  be  written,  not 
merely  day  by  day,  but  hour  by  hour,  as  objects  come  to  light. 
All  objects  must  be  photographed  on  the  spot,  and  a  full  ac- 
count of  them  must  be  made  on  the  spot.  Therefore  a  number 
of  stenographers  must  be  ready  to  take  down  dictation  at  any 
moment. 

In  this  connexion  the  present  writer  cannot  refrain  from 
pointing  out  the  fact  that  Asia  Minor  is  practically  virgin  soil 
for  the  botanist,  the  geologist,  the  entomologist,  and  the  anthro- 
pologist. In  Cilicia,  for  instance,  there  are  a  number  of  prob- 
lems of  grave  importance  for  the  history  of  that  country  whose 
proper  and  final  solution  must  rest  with  geologists.  An  expedi- 
tion equipped  with  experts  in  the  above-mentioned  sciences 
would  accomplish  a  work  that  would  be  warmly  welcomed  by 
scholars  in  the  pure  sciences  as  well  as  by  scholars  in  the  sci- 
ences of  the  past. 

Equipment  for  Excavations. 

The  initial  equipment  for  excavations  would  be  costly.  For 
the  expeditious  and  real  removal  of  dirt  and  debris  it  would 
often  be  necessary  to  have  a  line  of  narrow-gauge  railway-track 
and  cars  to  be  drawn  by  mules,  implements  of  various  kinds, 
tents,  moveable  cottages,  culinary  equipment,  draft  mules,  pack 
mules  and  their  gear,  riding  horses  and  saddles,  carts,  wagons, 
a  special  field  library  to  include  everything  that  has  been  writ- 
ten about,  or  bears  on,  the  region  which,  for  the  moment,  is 
being  explored  and  excavated. 

All  of  this  initial  equipment  should  be  paid  for  by  an  appro- 
priation other  than  and  apart  from  the  annual  appropriation,  or 
else  the  first  annual  appropriation  might  be  reserved  for  the 
equipment.  It  may  take  a  year  to  get  the  permit  for  excava- 
tions, and  in  the  meantime  surface  research  can  be  carried  on. 

The  Unit  of  Time. 

Research  of  this  kind  cannot  be  really  effective  and  product- 
ive of  the  richest  results  unless  carried  on  for  a  long  series  of 
years.     Nothing  of  permanent  scientific  value  can  be  accom- 


—15— 

plished  by  isolated  effort,  by  explosive  effort,  or  by  work  con- 
ducted by  fits  and  starts  accompanied  by  a  change  of  personnel. 
The  work  must  be  continuous,  and  the  workers  must  be  certain 
of  its  continuance  for  many  consecutive  years,  and  practically 
without  reference  to  time  or  immediate  results.  The  members 
of  the  expedition  must  know  that  their  work,  if  satisfactory,  is 
to  continue  for  a  period  of  twenty,  forty  years,  or  longer,  for 
their  work  will  be  so  specialized  that  they  will  be  practically 
excluded  from  a  career  of  teaching  in  this  country.  But  with 
the  knowledge  that  their  work,  if  efficient,  will  be  continuous, 
they  will  feel  justified  in  acquiring  that  special,  local,  historical, 
and  archaeological  knowledge  without  which  no  expedition  can 
achieve  the  best  results.  That  which  in  one  year  may  be  held 
for  truth  may  be  modified,  corrected,  or  proved  false  by  the 
experience  of  succeeding  years.  One  who  is  on  the  ground  for 
a  number  of  consecutive  years  is  always  learning,  and  what  is 
learnt  always  makes  for  Truth  and  the  good  of  history,  archae- 
ology, or  geography. 

The  Working  Season. 
On  the  plateau  of  central  Asia  Minor  work  may  be  carried  on 
during  the  months  May  1st  to  November  1st,  the  period  between 
the  spring  and  autumn  rains.  But  the  season  will  vary  greatly 
elsewhere.  The  southern  sea-board  is  deadly  throughout  the 
hot  period,  when  the  pernicious  malarial  fever  usually  kills  out- 
siders. Work  at  Antioch,  in  Cilicia,  Pamphylia,  Southern  Lycia 
and  Caria  can  be  carried  on  only  in  March- April  and  October- 
November,  and  possibly  December.  The  working  season  there- 
fore will  be  about  four  or  five  months  in  each  year.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  year  will  be  spent  in  working  up  for  publication 
the  results  of  the  summer's  campaign.  This  should  be  done 
under  the  shadow  of  some  great  library,  where  one  can  get  at 
all  books  and  consult  with  scholars. 

The  Subvention  Asked  For  in  Principle. 

In  case  this  Project  is  approved  in  principle,  the  petitioner  is 
ready  to  suggest  definite  regions  for  research  and  definite  sites 
for  excavation. 


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The  amount  of  money  necessary  might,  and  probably  will, 
vary  considerably  from  year  to  year,  and  it  is  not  necessary  to 
ask  for  any  definite  sum,  until  the  project  shall  have  been  ap- 
proved in  principle. 

In  view  of  what  has  been  set  forth  above  the  undersigned  re- 
spectfully pleads  for  a  Subvention  for  Surface  Research  and  for 
Excavations  in  Asia  Minor,  as  follows : 

An  annual  appropriation  for  surface  research  and  for  excava- 
tions in  Asia  Minor,  which  should  be  preceded  by  a  prelimi- 
nary appropriation  for  the  purchase  of  the  initial  equipment  as 
outlined  above.  And  because  this  research  must  be  continuous, 
if  it  is  to  be  valuable,  this  annual  appropriation  should  be  based 
on  Twenty  Years  as  the  unit  of  time,  with  the  outlook  for  a  re- 
newal of  the  grant  at  the  end  of  said  unit  of  time. 

The  petitioner's  contention  above  is  that  an  expedition  with 
large  resources  at  its  command,  such  as  would  make  it  possible 
to  put  a  large  body  of  trained  experts  into  the  work  of  research, 
would  prove  to  be  a  boon  to  mankind  at  large,  would  confer 
honor  upon  the  promoters  of  the  project,  and  upon  America. 
But  while  the  petitioner  begs  for  such  a  subvention,  still  he  de- 
sires to  make  it  quite  plain  that  a  small  appropriation,  continued 
for  a  long  series  of  years,  can  and  surely  will  accomplish  a  vast 
deal  of  good,  and,  therefore,  he  would  welcome  even  a  small 
appropriation,  though  longing  eagerly  for  a  large  subvention. 

The  Petitioner. 

The  author  of  this  Project  is  not  an  amateur  or  a  novice  in 
surface  research  in  Asia  Minor.  He  spent  four  years  in  such 
work,  though  the  actual  time  spent  in  the  saddle  covers  a  net 
period  of  two  years  and  a  half.  He  was  for  a  time  a  member  of 
the  Expedition  which  excavated  Assos,  and  he  published  The 
Inscriptions  of  Assos.  He  then  served  an  apprenticeship  in  sur- 
face research  under  Sir  William  M.  Ramsay,  with  whom  he 
travelled  for  one  summer  in  Phrygia,  publishing  as  results  of  his 
work.  The  Inscriptions  of  Sebaste,  and  The  Inscriptions  of  Tral- 
leis.  He  then  travelled  one  entire  summer  at  his  own  charges, 
publishing  a  large  volume  entitled.  An  Epigraphical  Journey  in 


—17— 

Asia  Minor.  Then,  as  a  member  of  the  Wolfe  Expedition  to 
Babylonia  he  published  The  Inscriptions  of  Palmyra.  There- 
after he  travelled  for  another  summer  in  Asia  Minor,  and  the 
results  of  this  journey  were  laid  down  in  a  large  volume  en- 
titled, The  Wolf  Expedition  to  Asia  Minor. 

Testimonials  of  the  Petitioner's  Fitness    to   Direct    Research 

Work. 

The  petitioner's  fitness  to  direct  research  in  Asia  Minor,  as 
outlined  above,  is  vouched  for  by  many  eminent  scholars  in 
Europe  and  America.* 

The  letter  of  Professor  B.  L.  Gildersleeve  is  placed  at  the  head 
of  the  list,  because  it  introduces  the  reader  to  the  distinguished 
European  scholars  who  write  in  support  of  the  present  Project, 
and  points  out  that  they  are  all  men  of  the  greatest  repute  in 
Europe. 

Johns  Hopkins  University. 

There  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  promise  of  the  field,  but  in 
such  matters  everything  depends  on  the  leader,  and  with  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett  in  charge  the  work  is  sure  to  be  a  success.  I  have 
known  Professor  Sterrett  for  more  than  thirty  years.  He  was  a 
student  of  mine  at  the  University  of  Virginia  and  I  have  fol- 
lowed his  career  with  the  deepest  interest  and  increasing  ad- 
miration. His  achievements  in  his  favorite  line  of  work  and  his 
fitness  for  it  are  alike  beyond  my  praise.  His  familiarity  with 
the  land  and  the  people,  his  learning,  his  insight,  his  archaeo- 
logical sense,  his  courage,  his  perseverance,  have  been  attested 
by  those  whose  lightest  word  of  commendation  carries  weight 
with  the  scholarly  world.    The  list  of  men  who  favor  the  enter- 


[^The  undated  letters  appended  hereto  were  written  by  their  respect- 
ive authors  in  the  hope  of  making  possible  such  a  subvention  as  would 
enable  the  present  writer  to  carry  on  a  work  of  research,  exploration, 
and  excavation  as  set  forth  above.  All  letters  have  been  edited  slightly, 
superfluous  matter  has  been  omitted,  and  certain  words  or  sentences 
have  been  printed  in  bold-faced  type  in  order  to  direct  attention  to  state- 
ments that  should  be  emphasized  and  considered.] 


—18— 

prise  and  express  their  confidence  in  its  eminent  leader  com- 
prises the  greatest  names  in  the  contemporary  annals  of  philo- 
logical and  archaeological  research.  There  is  not  one  amongst 
them  whose  name  does  not  stand  for  high  achievements  and  con- 
spicuous ability. 

This  seems  to  me  a  unique  opportunity  to  make  a  memorable 
contribution  to  the  knowledge  of  ancient  civilization,  and  I 
count  it  not  only  a  pleasure  but  a  privilege  to  bear  testimony  to 
the  importance  of  the  undertaking  and  to  the  eminent  fitness  of 
Dr.  Sterrett  for  the  direction  of  the  work. 

(Signed)  BASIL  L.  GILDERSLEEVE, 

Professor  of  Greek  in  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

Endorsement  of  Travellers  and  Excavators. 

University  of  Aberdeen. 

I  take  the  liberty  to  write  supporting  Professor  Sterrett 's  ap- 
peal for  a  liberal  subvention  to  Asia  Minor  exploration.  It  is 
now  becoming  universally  recognized  that  the  next  important 
development  in  our  knowledge  of  early  history  depends  on  work 
in  Asia  Minor. 

I  would  urge  that  excavation,  as  stated  by  him,  is  easier  and 
more  promising  and  more  urgent  than  surface  research  for  sev- 
eral reasons. 

(1)  Surface  research  gives  only  the  foundations  of  history, 
does  not  readily  appeal  to  general  interest,  and  depends  on  long 
slow  working  up  of  slight  materials  collected  in  wide  and  long 
continued  exploration. 

(2)  Long  experience  is  needed  to  learn  how  to  make  the  most 
of  opportunities  in  travel.  I  have  been  travelling  since  May, 
1880,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  until  1901  I  was  only  learning  the 
art.  Much  of  the  learning  was  a  slow  process  of  growing 
familiar  in  years  of  study  at  home  with  the  problems.  Of  course 
my  experience  is  wholly  at  the  service  of  any  of  your  explorers, 
and  your  men,  especially  Professor  Sterrett,  could  get  up  to  the 
elements  of  a  complicated  subject  much  more  quickly  than  those 


—19— 

elements  were  originally  brought  together.  But  excavation  can 
begin  at  once  and  be  carried  on  with  every  advantage  from  the 
outset  (given  care  in  registration  day  by  day)  ;  and  in  the  pro- 
cess of  excavations  and  study  of  the  conditions  revealed,  very 
considerable  progress  would  be  made  in  learning  the  way  to 
utilize  the  work  of  surface  research  in  the  future — also  the 
training  in  observation  during  the  excavations  would  be  ad- 
mirable practice  for  surface  research;  whereas  the  converse  is 
not  true. 

(3)  The  work  of  surface  research  is  already  advanced  to  a 
considerable  degree  during  my  30  years  of  work,  whereas  we 
are  all  eagerly  waiting  for  excavations  to  begin.  German  and 
Austrian  work  in  excavations  has  been  devoted  to  latest  Greek 
and  Roman  times. 

I  know  of  no  opportunity  for  achieving  more  brilliant  and 
possibly  even  stupefying  results  quickly  than  in  excavations  (to 
be  followed  after  some  years  perhaps  by  surface  research,  which 
can  only  give  solid,  but  never  striking  and  arresting  results.) 
Personally,  I  feel  so  strongly  the  truth  of  what  I  have  been  say- 
ing that  I  am  at  present  turning  to  excavations  as  far  as  my 
poor  equipment  will  permit. 

(Signed)  W.  M.  RAMSAY. 
Traveller,  Excavator,  Author  of  numerous  works  on  Asia 
Minor. 

United  States  Consulate,  Chemnitz,  Saxony,  Germany. 

May  I  venture  to  emphasize  the  exceptional  claims,  which 
such  a  comprehensive  and  well-planned  scheme  of  archaeological 
and  scientific  investigation  has  for  careful  consideration  by  en- 
lightened Americans. 

No  such  complete  and  thoroughly  coordinated  project  for  re- 
search in  Turkey  has  been  devised  by  the  savants  of  any  land. 

There  is  a  peculiar  fitness  in  the  establishment  and  mainte- 
nance of  such  an  undertaking  under  American  auspices.  Ameri- 
can philanthropy  and  altruistic  efforts  have  accomplished  more 
in  the  moral  and  intellectual  uplift  of  Turkey  than  all  other 


—20— 

factors  combined,  as  has  been  so  forcibly  shown  by  Ambassador 
Bryce,  in  his  studies  on  the  future  of  the  Ottoman  Empire. 

There  is  now  a  network  of  American  physicians,  teachers  and 
missionaries,  covering  the  empire,  most  admirably  adapted  to 
render  auxiliary  work  to  any  American  scientific  enterprise; 
while  public  opinion,  so  far  as  such  exists  in  Turkey,  recognizes 
the  total  absence  of  any  political  or  territorial  aspirations,  in 
connection  with  the  labors  of  our  countrymen  throughout  the 
Ottoman  territory. 

The  time  is  ripe  for  the  systematic,  coordinated,  exhaustive 
treatment  of  the  vast  amount  of  material  in  Turkey  awaiting 
the  well  equipped  archaeologist  and  scientist. 

I  have  a  personal  acquaintance  with  Asiatic  Turkey  and  West- 
ern Persia,  more  extended  than  that  of  any  other  American, 
with  the  exception  of  Dr.  Sterrett,  and  possibly  a  very  few  of 
the  older  missionaries.  In  the  course  of  my  many  thousand 
miles  of  travel  there,  I  have  been  amazed  at  the  extent  of  the 
remains  of  all  the  great  historical  epochs,  still  awaiting  careful 
investigation. 

The  facilities  for  travel,  for  exploration,  for  excavation,  have 
all  been  increased  in  a  rapid  ratio  of  late  years.  The  general 
advance,  all  along  the  line,  in  epigraphy  and  ethnology,  have 
been  such  during  the  past  decade,  that  the  trained  energetic  in- 
vestigator in  Oriental  fields  can  accomplish  to-day  vastly  more 
in  a  given  time,  than  was  possible  but  a  few  years  since. 

As  I  have  watched  on  the  spot  the  sporadic,  disconnected  ex- 
plorations now  being  undertaken  by  small  unevenly  equipped 
parties  of  different  nationalities,  in  Syria,  Mesopotamia,  Ar- 
menia, Persia,  and  Asia  Minor,  I  have  more  than  once  realized 
how  their  work  could  be  trebled  or  quadrupled  in  permanent 
value,  if  it  were  only  conducted  upon  lines  ensuring  continuity 
and  coordination,  such  as  has  produced,  and  is  producing  mar- 
velous results  in  Greece. 

There  is  no  question  in  my  mind,  that  no  other  living  Ameri- 
can possesses  more  than  a  fraction  of  Dr.  Sterrett 's  peculiar 
qualifications  for  the  direction  of  such  a  work. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  find  another  man  combining  the 


—21— 

actual  experience  on  the  ground,  the  scholarly  training,  the 
physical  and  temperamental  fitness  for  the  exceptional  demands 
on  vitality  of  body  and  spirit,  and  above  all,  the  deep-seated 
enthusiasm  and  personal  predilection  for  this  special  field,  which 
is  so  absolutely  indispensable  for  lasting  success. 

I  should  as  unhesitatingly  put  my  finger  on  Dr.  Sterrett  as  the 
one  American  preeminently  fitted  for  such  work,  as  I  should 
have  designated  Commander  Peary  as  the  American  best 
equipped  for  solving  the  Arctic  problem. 

My  somewhat  unusual  familiarity  with  the  proposed  field  of 
activity  has  led  me  to  the  conviction  that  every  year  of  delay  in 
developing  a  comprehensive,  all-embracing  plan  of  exploration 
in  Turkey  is  seriously  lessening  the  possibilities  of  final  accom- 
plishment, because  the  disintegration,  defacement  and  destruc- 
tion of  the  monuments  of  the  past  are  proceeding  at  an  alarming 
pace. 

No  intelligent  traveller  in  Turkey  can  witness  the  steady  dis- 
appearance of  what  should  be  ''laboratory  material"  for  the 
archaeologist  and  ethnologist  without  a  heartache. 

I  think  that  I  echo  the  feelings  of  all  my  countrymen  who 
have  come  into  close  contact  with  the  possibilities  of  Oriental 
exploration,  when  I  earnestly  and  urgently  press  its  importance 
upon  your  attention,  as  appealing  strongly  to  the  sympathetic 
and  generous  consideration  of  our  countrymen. 

(Signed)  THOMAS  H.  NORTON, 
Formerly  American  Consul  in  Harput  and  in  Smyrna.  Agent 
of  the  U.  S.  Government  in  Armenia,  Syria,  Mesopotamia,  and 
Persia. 


Kaiserliches  Archaeologisches  Institut, 

(Translation.)  Berlin,  den  23  Dezember  1910. 

I  hope  that  it  is  not  too  late  to  do  everything  that  I  can  to 
help  bring  Professor  Sterrett 's  magnificent  plan  to  realization. 
All  archaeologists  know,  as  a  matter  of  course,  and  from  my 
own  scientific  and  practical  experience  I  too  bear  witness,  that 
an  exhaustive  and  comprehensive  investigation  of  the  soil   of 


—22— 

Asia  Minor,  particularly  in  the  interior  of  the  peninsula,  be- 
longs among  the  most  urgent  needs  of  science,  and  I  declare 
that  I  agree  with  everjiihing  that  Professor  Sterrett  has  said 
in  regard  to  the  necessity  for  a  long-continued,  and  if  possible 
permanently  organized,  work  of  research;  that  I  agree  with 
what  he  has  said  in  regard  to  ample  means  and  a  large  staff  of 
workers ;  with  what  he  has  said  in  regard  to  the  urgency  of  the 
work,  that  we  may  make  haste  to  save  for  science  what  is  still 
to  be  saved ;  with  what  he  has  said  in  regard  to  the  importance 
of  Asia  Minor  for  the  history  of  culture  and  for  the  history  of 
the  world  in  the  most  various  periods. 

I  will  also  say  that  Professor  Sterrett 's  request  for  a  large  sub- 
vention to  be  continued  for  a  long  time  is  wisdom.  I  hope  that 
his  petition  will  be  granted,  for  the  enterprise  will  bring  the 
very  greatest  honor  to  America  and  will  advance  all  sciences  in 
the  highest  degree. 

It  is  perhaps  not  yet  time  to  speak  of  details  in  Professor 
Sterrett 's  plan;  but  still  I  should  like  to  call  attention  to  two 
points.  Professor  Sterrett  has  in  mind  not  only  the  work  in  the 
field,  but  also,  as  a  matter  of  course,  work  in  the  study  devoted 
to  the  preparation  and  publication  of  the  material  found  and  ob- 
served during  the  course  of  the  investigations  and  excavations. 
Experience  has  shown  that  this  part  of  archaeological  undertak- 
ings is  almost  regularly  underrated;  I  regard  it  as  demanding 
much  more  time  and  as  being  much  more  difficult  than  the  col- 
lection of  the  material,  and  I  suggest  that  in  making  arrange- 
ments this  fact  be  taken  into  account  from  the  very  outset. 

In  the  second  place,  in  connexion  with  Professor  Sterrett 's 
plan.  I  count  on  the  fellowship  and  concerted  action  of  the 
various  nations,  which  are  now,  or  in  the  future  shall  be  taking 
part  in  scientific  work  on  the  soil  of  the  Orient. 

(Signed)     PUCHSTEIN, 

Director  General  of  the  Imperial  German  Archaeological  In- 
stitute; Excavator  in  Syria  and  Asia  Minor.  Recently  de- 
ceased. 


—23— 

University  of  London,  University  College, 
London,  22  Nov.  1910. 
I  earnestly  hope  that  America  will  take  a  large  part  in  the 
study  of  the  great  history  of  humanity  which  has  passed  in  all 
the  ages.  Nowhere  is  that  study  more  needed  than  in  Asia 
Minor,  Syria,  and  Mesopotamia.  As  the  United  States  have 
already  earned  their  welcome  in  those  lands  by  their  establish- 
ment of  education,  so  there  is  no  part  of  the  world  where  their 
researches  would  have  a  readier  scope.  Dr.  Sterrett's  proposal 
to  organize  such  work  is  most  desirable,  and  it  is  the  most  fitting 
share  that  the  United  States  can  take  in  the  great  work  of  un- 
derstanding Man.  (Signed)  W.  M.  FLINDERS  PETRIE, 

Excavator  in  Egypt. 

Service  des  Antiquites, 

Cairo,  le  8  Novembre  1910. 

I  have  always  held  that,  now  we  begin  to  see  our  way  through 
Egyptian  and  Mesopotamian  antiquity,  Asia  Minor  ought  to  be 
thoroughly  searched  and  all  its  ancient  sites  properly  excavated, 
particularly  those  which  border  on  the  upper  basin  of  the 
Euphrates,  where  the  Hittites  and  their  subjects  lived.  Most 
of  the  problems  which  baffle  us  now  must  find  their  solution 
there,  whether  they  concern  the  story  of  the  Oriental  civilisa- 
tion or  whether  they  be  related  to  the  classical  nations  of 
Greece  and  even  Italy,  if,  -as  I  am  inclined  to  believe,  the  Etrus- 
can language  came  with  part  of  the  Etruscan  population  from 
Lydia.  Therefore  I  should  esteem  it  a  boon  for  our  science,  if  a 
large  expedition  should  be  sent  to  Asia  Minor,  with  funds 
enough  to  explore,  not  only  the  more  important  sites,  but  all  the 
old  ruins  which  are  scattered  on  the  central  plateau  from  Ar- 
menia to  the  shores  of  the  Aegean  Sea. 

I  should  take  it  as  a  real  favour,  if  you  would  tell  me  from 
time  to  time  how  your  scheme  succeeds,  and  when  it  is  likely  to 
be  realized.  If  it  were  to  include  excavations  in  Egypt,  you 
might  count  on  my  help  to  forward  it  there. 

(Signed)     G.  MASPeRO, 

Director  of  the  Museum  of  Egyptian  Antiquities  and  of  Ex- 
cavations. 


—24— 

(Translation.)  Kaiserl.  Deutsch.  Archaeol.  Institut,  Athen. 

Pergamon  bei  Smyrna,  den  5.  September  1910. 

It  would  be  a  scientific  feat  of  the  first  rank,  if  this  plan  could 
be  carried  into  execution.  Not  only  would  numerous  branches 
of  science  be  advantaged,  but  new  points  of  departure  would 
be  gained,  if  large  regions  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  could  be  in- 
vestigated in  the  manner  planned,  and  if  the  results  attained 
could  be  made  known  to  the  scholars  of  the  whole  world  by  a 
comprehensive  publication. 

As  I  myself  have  labored  for  years  in  several  parts  of  Asia 
Minor  (particularly  in  Troy  and  Pergamon)  I  know  that  the 
soil  of  Asia  Minor  still  holds  buried  rich,  and  even  undreamed 
of,  treasures.  The  small  expeditions  and  investigations  that 
have  been  made  up  to  the  present  have  by  no  means  been  able 
to  raise  those  treasures  and  give  them  over  to  science.  There- 
fore I  should  greet  with  enthusiasm  the  realization  of  this  great 
plan,  if  Professor  Sterrett  himself  would  undertake  its  direc- 
tion. His  name  guarantees  a  thoroughly  competent  manage- 
ment of  the  magnificent  undertaking. 

(Signed)  PROFESSOR  DR.  WILHELM  DORPFELD, 

Erster  Sekretar  des  Kaiserl.  Deutschen  Archaeolog.  Instituts 
in  Athen.  (Excavator  at  Olympia,  Athens,  and  many  sites  in 
Greece;  Excavator  at  Troy  and  Pergamon). 

Institut  de  France. 
Academic  des  Inscriptions  et  Belles-Lettres, 

Paris. 
(Translation.)  Le  Secretaire  perpetuel  de  I'Academie. 

I  can  only  approve  highly  of  the  thought.  I  began  my  own 
career  of  savant  by  a  journey  in  Asia  Minor  which  lasted  more 
than  a  year,  and  I  can  understand  the  important  results  of  every 
kind  that  could  not  fail  to  be  attained  by  a  methodical  explora- 
tion of  that  country,  especially  by  an  expedition  planned  so 
well  by  Mr.  Sterrett  and  with  the  large  resources  that  could  be 
placed  at  its  disi)osal  by  cultured  Americans  of  large  wealth. 
I  have  followed  the  career  of  Mr.  Sterrett.  He  is  an  archae- 
ologist and  an  epigraphist.     He  knows  the  country  in  which 


—25— 

he  would  have  to  work,  the  language  and  the  customs  of 
the  people  who  live  there.  In  him  you  would  have  ''the  right 
man  in  the  right  place, ' '  something  that  is  not  always  true.  No 
one  could  be  more  sure  of  success. 

My  past  career  as  traveller  and  the  interest  that  I  have  never 
ceased  to  have  for  research  work  done  in  this  part  of  the  classi- 
cal world  give  me  the  right  to  believe  that  I  shall  not  be  indis- 
creet in  venturing  to  recommend  warmly  to  the  board  of  an 
endowed  institution  that  they  undertake  the  project  submit- 
ted to  them  by  Mr.  Sterrett.  It  goes  without  saying  that 
excavations  cannot  be  begun  until  after  surface  research  shall 
have  proceeded  far  enough  to  determine  upon  the  sites  that  give 
good  promise  of  fine  discoveries. 

(Signed)  GEORGES  PERROT, 

Auteur  de  rExploration  archeologique  de  la  Galatie,  de  la 
Bithynie,  d'  une  partie  de  la  Cappadoce  et  du  Pont,  2  vol.  petit 
in  f^.,  Paris,  Didot,  et  de  T  Histoire  de  1'  Art  dans  T  Antiquite, 
8  vol.  in  8^.,  Paris,  Hachette. 

University  of  Berlin, 
(Translation.)  Berlin,  2  Nov.  1910. 

In  view  of  the  endorsement  by  so  many  distinguished  scholars, 
I  cannot  believe  that  my  modest  word  can  be  of  importance  for 
the  furtherance  of  Professor  Sterrett 's  grand  and  beautiful 
plan.  But  I  have  had  the  opportunity  of  following  in  detail  the 
excavations  carried  on  in  Asia  Minor  during  the  last  generation 
by  our  German  investigators,  and  because  of  my  experience  in 
the  field  I  cannot  refuse  to  give  expression  to  my  warm  interest 
in  the  undertaking  planned  by  Professor  Sterrett.  It  is  there- 
fore with  absolutely  sincere  conviction  that  I  subscribe  to  the 
endorsement  given  by  a  number  of  the  most  distinguished  rep- 
resentatives of  our  science  of  the  past  in  regard  to  the  im- 
portance of,  and  the  urgent  necessity  for,  a  comprehensive 
exploration  of  Asia  Minor.  Along  with  them  I  greet  with  joy 
the  fact,  (1)  that  the  proposed  undertaking  is  directed  in  the 
first  instance  towards  a  thoroughgoing  exploration  of  the 
country  for  all  that  is  above  the  ground  and  of  the  remains  that 
are  endangered  by  the  advance  of  modern  civilization;  (2)  that 


—26— 

it  is  proposed  to  undertake  a  really  exhaustive  and  definite 
investigation  of  the  entire  terrain  on  sites  whose  importance 
make  excavations  necessary;  (3)  that,  from  the  very  outset,  it 
is  proposed,  as  an  integral  part  of  the  scheme,  to  make  a  com- 
plete publication  of  the  results  of  the  investigations,  and  that 
these  publications  are  to  keep  pace  with  the  work  of  research, 
as  far  as  possible. 

If  a  well-endowed  institution  will  make  it  possible  for  so 
experienced  and  so  excellent  an  investigator  as  Professor  J.  R. 
S.  Sterrett  to  undertake  and  carry  through  such  an  undertaking 
by  granting  him  abundant  and  guaranteed  resources,  it  will 
thereby  give  to  the  world,  not  merely  a  treasure  of  absolutely 
new  knowledge,  but,  by  adding  this  new  knowledge  to  that 
gained  from  numerous  investigations  in  the  recent  past  and  in 
the  present,  it  will  enable  us  to  combine  all  into  a  great  and  a 
splendid  whole,  and  thereby  it  will  do  an  imperishable  service 
to  the  historical  sciences. 

(Signed)  RICHARD  SCHONE. 

Konigliche  Skulpturensammlung, 
(Translation.)  Dresden,  Albertinum,  8  November  1910. 

I  am  convinced  that  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  the  countries  in 
which  the  great  migrations  in  the  history  of  mankind  meet  and 
mix,  are  also  the  countries  whose  exploration  is  the  most  im- 
perative task  of  the  science  of  the  past,  and  at  the  same  time  the 
countries  which  promise  the  richest  returns.  I  believe  with  you 
and  Sir  "William  Ramsay  that  this  is  to  be  reached  chiefly  by 
excavations.  A  glance  at  our  own  experiences  at  Olympia 
shows  how  pitiful  and  how  misguiding  was  almost  everything 
above  ground  on  the  site  of  the  old  games,  and  how  rich  was 
the  information  revealed  upon  the  removal  of  every  square  foot 
of  earth.  One  veil  after  the  other  fell  from  the  venerable  past, 
whose  true  portrait  we  only  saw  after  the  excavations.  Book- 
learning  and  a  science  of  conjecture  are  as  nothing  in  compari- 
son with  one  bit  of  resurrected  Truth. 

(Signed)     GEORG  TREU. 

From  1877  to  1881  Director  of  the  Excavations  of  the  German 
Empire  at  Olympia. 


—27— 

(Translation.)  Babylon,  16  Nov.  1910. 

You  can  rest  assured  that  I  follow  with  eager  expectation 
your  great  plans  for  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  and  that  I  wish  you 
the  best  of  success.    It  would  be  a  prodigious  achievement. 
(Signed)     EGBERT  KOLDEWEY, 

Excavator  of  Babylon. 

(Translation.)  Paris,  19  Novembre  1910. 

I  cannot  applaud  sufficiently  your  thought  and  your  initiative. 
Asia  Minor  is  the  promised  land  of  the  archaeologists,  and  it 
contains  riches  and  treasures  which  will  be  added  to  those  of 
which  she  has  been  prodigal.  Lydia  and  Sardes  in  particular 
should  be  made  the  object  of  methodical  excavations.  It  is 
there  that  the  civilizations  of  the  Orient  and  the  Occident  met, 
and  I  am  convinced  that  the  ruins  of  the  monuments  and  the 
objects  excavated  will  be  of  incomparable  scientific  interest. 
But  besides  Sardes  there  are  a  host  of  sites  that  call  for  the 
pick  of  the  archaeologist.  I  will  add  that  the  direction  of  the 
work  could  not  be  committed  to  better  hands  than  yours. 
(Signed)  MARCEL  DIEULAFOY, 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Excavator  of  Persepolis. 

(Translation.)  Paris,  18  Nov.  1910. 

I  believe  that  in  the  benevolent  distribution  of  such  bounteous 
benefactions  the  grand  and  noble  cause  of  the  archaeology  and 
epigraphy  of  the  East  cannot,  and  must  not,  be  forgotten,  for 
it  is  of  equal  interest  to  profane  and  sacred  science.  The  things 
speak  sufficiently  for  themselves,  and  it  is  a  case  where  we  must 
say  Lapides  clamant !  (Signed)     SCHEIL, 

Membre  de  V  Institut ;  Excavator  of  Susa. 

Le  Peseau,  Boulleret,  Cher, 
(Translation.)  15  Novembre  1910. 

I  am  happy  to  add  my  voice  to  the  authoritative  voices  that 
have  already  endorsed  Professor  Sterrett's  project;  I  should  be 
still  more  happy,  if  this  concert  of  voices  were  heard  by  those 


—28— 

who  dispense  the  magnificent  American  benefactions.  I  think 
that  it  would  be  worthy  of  the  exalted  thought  that  inspired 
their  foundation  and  of  the  grand  nation  which  has  been  made 
their  depositary,  if  they  would  assign  to  the  science  of  history  a 
place  among  the  great  works  which  they  will  enable  mankind  to 
carry  through.  No  country  can  furnish  more  abundant  and  more 
decisive  documents  concerning  the  great  problems  of  the  past 
than  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  But  to  obtain  them  it  is  necessary 
to  attack  the  soil  with  method:  an  operation  that  can  only  be 
carried  on  at  very  considerable  expense.  The  opportunity  of- 
fered by  the  generosity  of  Americans  is  unique:  we  should 
profit  by  the  opportunity,  and  at  once,  before  the  opening  up  of 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  to  modern  progress  and  industry  shall 
have  brought  about  the  final  destruction  of  the  monuments  of 
the  past. 

(Signed)     MAKQUIS  DE  VOGUE, 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Membre  de  1'  Academic  Francaise; 
Traveller  and  Writer. 

Oxford  University. 
May  I  endorse  as  strongly  as  possible  Professor  Sterrett's 
statement  that  further  researches  in  the  archasology  of  Asia 
Minor  is  the  one  thing  needful  at  present?  and  that  a  wealthy 
man  or  fund  could  hardly  serve  science  better  than  by  making 
a  substantial  grant  for  that  purpose  ? 

(Signed)  D.  G.  HOGAETH, 

Ashmolean  Museum. 
Traveller  in  Asia  Minor,  Syria,  Cyprus.    Excavator  in  Crete 
and  Egypt  and  at  Ephesus.    Writer. 

University  of  Berlin. 
(Translation.)  Berlin,  den  10  Oct.  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  extensive  and  systematic  re- 
search in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  fills  a  real  need  and  promises 
results  of  great  importance  for  the  history  and  development  of 
civilization  in  antiquity  and,  scarcely  to  a  lesser  degree,  in  the 


—29— 

middle  ages  and  in  early  modern  times.  I  can  commend  the 
plan  to  the  kindly  consideration  of  an  endowed  institution 
and  urge  it  with  all  the  more  earnestness  because  I  myself  have 
undertaken  explorations  and  excavations  in  eastern  Asia  Minor 
— partly  in  the  regions  had  in  mind  by  Professor  Sterrett — and 
Armenia,  and  for  that  reason  I  am  in  a  position  to  have  an 
opinion,  and  my  own  experience  gives  me  a  right  to  approve  the 
method  suggested  by  Professor  Sterrett  and  to  confirm  his  views 
as  to  the  inexhaustible  store  of  archaeological  and  epigraphical 
treasures  concealed  beneath  the  soil  of  Asia  Minor. 

An  extension  of  the  work  of  research  towards  the  east  into 
Armenian  territory  is  greatly  to  be  desired.  In  its  history  and 
civilization  Armenia  forms  the  most  important  connecting  link 
between  Asia  Minor  proper  and  Mesopotamia,  and  the  prear- 
menian  kingdom  of  Van  comprised  in  its  western  extension  im- 
portant parts  of  the  old  Hittite  kingdom,  as  far  west  as  Malatia 
and  even  much  further.  Of  its  numerous  and  rich  sites  only 
one — Toprak  Kaleh  near  Van — ^has  been  investigated  seriously. 
In  short  the  plan  is  promising  and  Professor  Sterrett  is  the  man 
to  start  the  work  successfully.  A  unique  opportunity  to  ad- 
vance science  is  thus  offered. 

C.  F.  LEHMANN-HAUPT. 

Professor  der  alten  Geschichte  an  der  Universitat.  Heraus- 
geber  der  Zeitschrift  ''Klio,*'  Beitrage  zur  alten  Geschichte. 
Verfasser  von  ''Armenien  sonst  und  jetzt." 

Christ  Church,  Oxford. 
Dr.  Sterrett 's  name  is  well  known  to  European  scholars  as  a 
thoroughly  competent  worker  in  this  field  and  as  an  unusually 
successful  traveller,  whose  brilliant  discoveries  in  Asia  Minor 
have  made  a  landmark  in  the  exploration  of  what,  from  a  hu- 
manist point  of  view,  is  perhaps  the  most  interesting  and  im- 
portant of  all  countries.  It  is  clear  that  we  are  on  the  eve  of 
epoch-making  discoveries  in  Asia  Minor.  Systematic  work  is 
being  undertaken  there  both  by  English  and  Continental  schol- 
ars, and  the  results  already  attained  show  how  much  may  be 
expected,  once  the  work  is   in   full   swing.    It   is   right   that 


—30— 

America  should  share  in  the  honor  of  this  great  scientific  enter- 
prise, and  all  who  have  at  heart  the  advancement  of  human 
knowledge  would  rejoice  at  the  co-operation  of  a  country  which 
has  done  so  much  for  the  cause  of  Science  in  Asiatic  Turkey. 
But  no  systematic  work  can  be  attempted  without  an  adequate 
subvention  guaranteed  for  a  number  of  years.  On  the  continent 
such  financial  assistance  is  provided  by  Academies  subsidized  by 
the  Government,  but  that  method  has  not  been  adopted  in 
English-speaking  countries.  We  are  obliged  to  have  recourse  to 
the  liberality  of  individuals,  which  is  uncertain  and  precarious, 
or  of  public-spirited  institutions  such  as  yours,  and  I,  in  com- 
mon with  English  savants  generally,  fervently  hope  that  the 
appeal  of  Dr.  Sterrett  will  not  be  made  in  vain. 

(Signed)  J.  G.  C.  ANDERSON, 
Traveller  in  Asia  Minor.     Writer. 

Queens  University,  Kingston,  Canada. 

If  Asia  Minor  were  altogether  unknown  there  would  be  rea- 
son to  avoid  committing  your  Trust  to  a  large  undertaking  but 
a  good  deal  is  known  already.  The  results  obtained  by  scat- 
tered efforts  of  occasional  travellers  are  sufficient  to  make  it 
practically  certain  that  important  discoveries  of  every  kind 
would  follow  upon  a  really  systematic  and  thorough  investiga- 
tion by  competent  men.  No  one  can  doubt  it,  although  only 
actual  finds  can  prove  the  point.  I  suppose  there  is  an  element 
of  uncertainty  about  all  researches  that  deserve  the  name. 

The  all-important  matter  is  to  secure  the  services  of  a  capable 
leader.  In  regard  t^  Asia  Minor  this  is  easy.  The  published 
works  of  Professor  Sterrett  demonstrate,  beyond  cavil,  that  he  is 
precisely  the  man  to  take  charge  of  the  expedition.  A  better 
leader  could  not  be  desired.  What  can  be  done  by  energy  and 
jiadgment  in  the  field  Professor  Sterrett  will  do  and  do  well.  Not 
less  important  is  the  editing  of  new  material  when  found  and 
here  again  his  ripe  scholarship  promises  the  happiest  results. 
The  scheme  is  a  splendid  one  and,  I  feel  sure,  will  be  a  brilliant 
success  if  liberally  supported. 

(Signed)  T.  CALLANDER, 
Traveller  in  Asia  Minor.     Writer. 


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Rome. 

As  an  excavator  and  traveller  of  some  twelve  years'  experi- 
ence in  different  parts  of  the  East  Mediterranean  area  including 
Knossos  in  Crete,  may  I  venture  warmly  to  recommend  for 
favorable  consideration  the  projects,  proposed  by  Professor 
Sterrett  of  Cornell  for  (a)  scientific  research  and  (b)  excava- 
tion in  Asia  Minor. 

If  this  two-fold  scheme,  as  conceived  by  so  competent  a  per- 
son as  Dr.  Sterrett,  receives  liberal  encouragement,  there  can 
be  no  doubt  whatever  that  the  scientists  and  scholars  of  other 
countries  will  have  every  reason  to  congratulate  America  and 
the  donor  of  the  funds  on  the  results  to  science  and  history  and 
on  the  gains  to  knowledge. 

Professor  Sterrett  rightly  emphasizes  the  fact  that,  in  view  of 
the  double  project  he  has  at  heart,  Asia  Minor  is  not  only  to  all 
intents  and  purposes  virgin  soil  but  terra  incognita.  And  in  the 
opinion  of  the  present  writer  hardly  anybody  in  America  could 
be  found  so  fitted  as  Dr.  Sterrett  happens  to  be  by  his  past  spe- 
cial training,  to  be  the  guiding  spirit  of  a  scheme  of  scientific 
and  archaaeological  research  which  he  himself  has  conceived  in 
so  comprehensively  enlightened  and  at  the  same  time  so  emi- 
nently practical  a  spirit. 

Hoping  that  enlightened  wealth  will  see  good  to  regard 
with  the  favor  it  deserves  a  scheme  which  so  many  scholars  and 
men  of  science  not  only  in  your  country  but  also  in  Europe  are 
bound  to  follow  with  interest,  I  beg  to  remain, 

(Signed)  DUNCAN  MACKENZIE. 

University  of  Vienna. 
(Translation.)  Wien,  den  7  Sept.  1910. 

The  undertaking  of  archasological  and  historical  research  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  as  planned  and  recommended  by  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett,  is  of  such  extraordinary  importance,  promises 
so  much,  and  is  so  urgent,  that  it  is  sure  of  a  joyful  reception 
and  of  hearty  support  on  all  sides.  So  many  distinguished 
scholars  have  called  attention  to  the  importance  of  the  proposed 
undertaking  that  it  is  unnecessary  for  me  to  say  more  about  a 


—32— 

fact  so  well  recognized  as  this,  that  the  proposed  exploration  of 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  one  of  the  most  important  undertakings 
assigned  to  our  times  and  to  the  immediate  future.  Former 
investigations  on  the  soil  of  these  countries  show  abundantly 
how  much  is  still  to  be  done  in  them,  and  what  exceedingly  rich 
and  undreamed  of  results  are  to  be  expected  in  these  unex- 
hausted and  inexhaustible  regions.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that 
the  undertaking  of  this  great  project  is  extraordinarily  urgent, 
and  that,  even  if  it  be  undertaken  at  once,  it  will  be  begun,  so 
to  speak,  at  the  eleventh  hour,  because  the  progressively  grow- 
ing development  of  the  Orient  threatens  precisely  the  precious 
monuments  of  the  past  with  irreparable  ruin. 

(Signed)  ADOLPH  WILHELM, 

Professor  Archaeology  and  Epigraphy  in  the  University  of 
Vienna.    Traveller  in  Asia  Minor. 


Endorsement  of  the  British  Museum. 

British  Museum, 

London,  W.  C,  Nov.  19th,  1910. 

No  country  on  the  face  of  the  earth  offers  such  a  variety  of 
unsolved  problems  to  the  explorer  as  Asia  Minor.  From  its 
relations  with  the  successive  civilisations  occupying  or  in  con- 
tact with  it, — Assyrian,  Egyptian,  Cretan,  Phrygian,  Lydian-, 
Greek,  Roman,  Byzantine,  Seljuk,  Ottoman, — its  soil  contains 
evidence,  recoverable  only  by  the  spade,  of  inestimable  value  for 
the  history  of  the  world.  A  well-equipped  and  (what  is  even 
more  necessary)  well-led  expedition,  working  exhaustively  on 
some  of  the  sites  of  known  importance,  may  reasonably  hope  to 
achieve  revelations  of  ancient  civilisation  as  epoch-making  as 
those  of  Layard  and  Rawlinson  in  Assyria,  or  of  Evans  in  Crete. 
There  is  no  scholar  but  would  rejoice  to  see  some  such  site  or 
group  of  sites  allotted  to  an  American  archaeologist,  with  the 
assurance  that  he  had  at  his  back  sufficient  means  to  carry  the 
work  through  to  its  completion.    The  sympathy  (and,  if  desired, 


—33— 

the  advice)  of  the  British  Museum  would  always  be   at  the 
service  of  such  a  project. 

(Signed)     FREDERICK  G.  KENYON,  Director, 

ARTHUR  HAMILTON  SMITH, 

H.  B.  WALTERS, 

F.  H.  MARSHALL, 

E.  J.  FORSDYKE, 

L.  W.  KING. 

Department  of  Greek  and  Roman  Antiquities, 

British  Museum,  London,  W.  C,  Nov.  14,  1910. 
I  have  been  greatly  interested  in  your  proposals  for  a  more 
exhaustive  survey  of  Asia  Minor.  Undoubtedly  there  is  much 
to  be  gleaned  on  the  surface,  which  if  it  is  not  gathered  quickly 
will  be  lost  forever.  It  is  also  a  matter  of  great  importance  to 
organize  an  expedition,  with  sufficient  resources,  and  sufficient 
influence  with  the  Turkish  authorities,  to  run  a  triangulation 
across  the  interior  of  the  country.  I  well  remember,  when  I 
had  the  pleasure  of  travelling  with  you  in  Caria,  the  difficulty 
of  placing  our  studies  of  small  parts,  in  the  absence  of  any  gen- 
eral framework  such  as  would  be  furnished  by  triangulation. 
(Signed)     ARTHUR  HAMILTON  SMITH. 

Department  of  Coins  and  Medals, 
British  Museum,  London,  W.  C,  Nov.  14,  1910. 
I  do  not  suppose  that  my  opinion  is  likely  to  carry  any 
weight;  but  I  am  glad  of  the  opportunity  of  expressing  my 
earnest  hope  that  you  will  be  successful  in  obtaining  a  grant 
for  the  purposes  of  exploration  and  excavation  in  Asia  Minor. 
My  knowledge  of  the  subject  is  limited  to  its  numismatic  side ; 
but  a  long  study  of  the  coinage,  more  especially  of  the  southern 
districts  from  Lydia  to  Cilicia,  where  the  surface  has  hardly 
been  scratched,  convinces  me  that  results  of  extraordinary  im- 
portance for  the  history  of  culture  would  reward  systematic 
exploration  such  as  you  propose. 

(Signed)     G.  F.  HILL. 


—Si- 
Department  of  Egyptian  and  Assyrian  Antiquities, 

British  Museum,  London,  W.  C,  XIV,  XI,  MCMX. 
I  am  exceedingly  glad  that  a  systematic  attempt  is  to  be 
made  to  excavate  ancient  sites  in  Western  Asia,  for  many  his- 
torical problems  connected  with  that  country  need  solving,  and 
scientific  excavations  alone  will  solve  them.  I  sincerely  hope 
that  you  may  obtain  a  substantial  grant,  and  that  work  may 
begin  without  delay. 

E.  A.  WALLIS  BUDGE,  M.  A. ;  Litt.  D. ;  D.  Litt. 

Department  of  Coins  and  Medals, 
British  Museum,  London,  W.  C,  15  November  1910. 
Your  petition,  cogent  in  itself,  is  already  supported  by  so 
many  and  such  distinguished  scholars  that  I  feel  any  additional 
testimony  is  almost  superfluous.  I  however  gladly  write  to  say 
that  I  should  learn  with  the  greatest  satisfaction  that  the 
means  had  some  way  been  found  for  getting  a  substantial 
grant  in  the  cause  of  research  and  exploration  in  Asia 
Minor.  Without  enlarging  on  the  important  additions  to 
archaeology  and  history  that  may  be  confidently  looked  for 
from  an  endowed  and  systematized  exploration  of  this  pro- 
foundly interesting  country,  I  may  at  least  remark  that  clas- 
sical, Byzantine,  and  mediaeval  Numismatics — studies  that 
have  so  many  points  of  contact  with  archaeology  and  history — 
would  have  much  to  gain  both  directly  and  indirectly. 

(Signed)    WARWICK  WROTH. 

Endorsement  of  the   Society   for  the   Promotion   of   Hellenic 

Studies. 

12  Canterbury  Road,  Oxford. 

As  President  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Hellenic 
Studies,  I  have  been  requested  by  the  Council  of  the  Society  to 
write  to  you  to  express  the  great  interest  with  which  they  have 
heard  that  there  is  a  possibility  that  funds  may  be  found  where- 
ivith  to  enable  Dr.  Sterrett  and  other  explorers  to  make  a  care- 
ful geographical  and  historical  survey  of  Asia  Minor. 

Members  of  our  Society  such  as  Sir  Wm.  Ramsay,  Mr.  Ho- 


—35— 

garth,  Mr.  J.  G.  C.  Anderson,  Mr.  Munro,  Mr.  Paton  and  others 
have  during  the  last  twenty  years  travelled  much  in  Asia 
Minor,  and  done  much  to  bring  to  light  trade-routes  and  his- 
toric monuments.  Their  great  difficulty  has  been  want  of  funds 
and  equipment,  and  the  disturbed  state  of  the  country,  which 
has  compelled  them  to  move  rapidly  and  work  quickly. 

It  would  be  an  enormous  gain  to  geography,  history  and 
archaeology  if  work  of  a  more  deliberate  and  complete  kind 
could  be  done  in  the  country,  and  a  more  complete  survey  of  it 
made  than  has  yet  been  possible. 

I  understand  that  Sir  Wm.  Ramsay  and  Mr.  Hogarth  have 
already  written  to  you  in  favor  of  the  proposed  exploration; 
the  Society  wishes  to  endorse  their  views.  It  would  be  a  great 
satisfaction  to  us  if  we  could  in  any  way  cooperate  with  you  so 
far  as  our  very  limited  resources  will  allow.  The  work  is  cer- 
tainly one  which  will  require  much  time  and  expenditure ;  and 
we  should  be  very  glad  to  hear  that  you  are  able  to  endow  it 
liberally.  (Signed)  PERCY  GARDNER, 

President  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Hellenic  Studies. 

Endorsement  of  the  Imperial  German  Archaeological  Institute. 

(Translation.)  University  of  Berlin. 

An  opinion  is  asked  for  in  regard  to  Mr.  Sterrett's  plan  for 
archaeological  researches  in  the  Levant. 

I  sent  the  document  first  to  Dr.  Wiegand,  Director  in  the 
Royal  Prussian  Museums  with  residence  in  Constantinople,  as 
being  the  man  among  my  countrymen  at  the  moment  especially 
well  versed  in  the  question  at  issue.  He  has  sent  me  the  follow- 
ing expression  of  opinion.  Mr.  Puchstein,  the  General-Secre- 
tary of  the  Imperial  German  Archaeological  Institute,  and  I 
declare  that  we  agree  with  the  contents  of  that  letter.  (See 
next  letter.) 

I  recognize  in  this  exchange  of  views  the  beginning  of  an  un- 
dertaking based  on  mutual  agreement  that  promises  well  for 
the  proposed  investigations.  (Signed)  CONZE, 

Mitglied  der  Centraldirektion  des  Kais.  Deutschen  Archaeo- 
logisch^n  Instituts. 


—36— 

(Translation.)  Constantinople. 

Mr.  Sterrett  is  quite  correct  in  feeling  and  in  saying  that  a 
given  fixed  Province  must  be  the  basis  of  a  systematic  explora- 
tion of  Asia  Minor.  That  Province  must  first  be  mapped  and 
thoroughly  explored  for  everything  above  ground,  so  that  the 
systematic  excavation  of  suitable  sites  may  follow.  But  these 
excavations  must  present  an  exhaustive  picture  of  the  entire 
city  and  must  be  much  more  thorough  than  were  the  excava- 
tions of  Assos,  where  no  private  house,  and  not  even  the  im- 
mediate neighborhood  of  the  principal  temple,  was  entirely 
excavated.  Every  Province,  after  having  been  explored  in  this 
way,  should  receive  a  special  publication,  and  the  principle 
should  be  firmly  fixed  that  no  new  Province  is  to  be  undertaken 
until  the  publication  of  the  preceding  Province  is  put  upon  the 
book  market  in  a  complete  shape. 

To  judge  from  the  whole  tried  past  of  Mr.  Sterrett  I  believe 
that  Cilicia  is  the  Province  to  begin  with.  For  the  west  of  Asia 
Minor  is  in  good  hands ;  in  general  it  forms  the  sphere  of  inter- 
est of  Germany  and  Austria,  and  Cecil  Smith  is  thinking  of 
Colophon  and  neighborhood  for  his  investigations.  We  are 
about  to  arrange  with  Austria  for  the  mapping  of  the  whole  of 
Ionia,  and  I  believe  that  some  day  something  similar  will  be 
done  for  Caria,  with  Miletus  as  point  of  departure.  But  the 
east  and  the  south  of  Asia  ]\Iinor  offer  the  richest  field  to  our 
American  colleagues ;  so  does  Syria,  where,  however,  one  should 
work  in  agreement  with  the  plans  of  Puchstein,  and  where  one 
could  achieve  especially  fruitful  results. 

Before  everything  else  thoroughgoing  work  should  be  done 
in  each  Province.  Rapid  journeys  have  no  longer  a  general 
scientific  value. 

In  the  matter  of  surface  research  work  a  splendid  task  would 
be  a  survey  of  all  the  Christian  monuments  of  Syria  or  Asia 
Minor,  for  they  are  threatened  with  destruction  in  the  most  hor- 
rible way,  and  the  matter  is  very  pressing  and  very  well  worth 
doing.  I  can  suggest  it  all  the  more  earnestly  and  warmly,  be- 
cause, up  to  the  present,  there  is  no  likelihood  that  any  one  else 
will  supply  the  means  wherewith  to  rescue  in  a  worthy  manner, 


—37— 

at  least  in  pictured  restoration,  those  witnesses  of  Christian 
civilization  in  Asia  Minor.  By  such  a  work  an  enlightened 
institution  would  render  a  most  invaluable  service  to  the  civ- 
ilization of  the  Orient  in  the  middle  ages,  and  more  especially  if 
the  magnificent  monuments  of  Islam,  for  instance  in  Konia 
(Iconium)  and  Sivas  are  included. 

(Signed)  WIEGAND, 
Director  in  the  Eoyal  Prussian  Museums  with  Residence  in 
Constantinople. 

Endorsement  of  French  Museums. 

Direction  des  Musees  Nationaux, 
(Translation.)  Palais  du  Louvre,  Paris,  12,  XI,  1910. 

The  thorough  and  complete  investigation  of  what  is  above 
and  below  the  surface  of  the  ground  in  Asia  Minor  will  be  for 
science  the  enterprise  the  most  fruitful  of  results;  for  the  gov- 
ernment, or  the  learned  body,  that  would  devote  means  sufficient 
for  the  task,  one  of  the  most  glorious  enterprises  that  could  be 
conceived  of.  All  our  beginnings  are  there :  those  of  the  ancient 
civilization  and  those  of  the  Christian  civilization.  In  that  field 
where  the  harvest  will  be  so  splendid  America  has  already 
blazed  its  way  and  turned  its  furrow.  Ramsay,  Sitlington  Ster- 
rett,  their  companions  and  their  rivals,  have  already  shown 
themselves  to  be  travellers  as  bold  and  indefatigable  as  keen- 
sighted;  scholars  as  learned  as  acute  and  discerning;  as  prompt 
in  publishing  their  documents  as  skilful  in  discovering  them. 
The  w^orkmen  are  ready ;  they  are  experienced,  they  are  always 
eager,  and  their  plan  of  campaign  has  already  been  outlined. 
To  set  out  they  await  but  a  signal  and  a  viaticum.  I  wish  with 
all  the  ardor  aroused  by  my  interest  in  the  advancement  of 
science  that  both  may  be  given  to  them. 

(Signed)    T.  HOMOLLE, 

Directeur  honoraire  de  1'  Bcole,  francaise  d'  Athenes,  Direc- 
teur  des  Musees  Nationaux  et  de  T  Ecole  du  Louvre,  Membre 
de  r  Academic  des  Inscriptions  et  Belles  Lettres  et  de  I'Acade- 
mie  des  Beaux  Arts. 


—38— 

Direction  des  Musees  Nationaux, 
(Translation.)         Palais  du  Louvre,  Paris,  12  Novembre,  1910. 

The  methodical  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  is  an  enterprise  of 
the  very  highest  importance  for  the  science  of  archaeology. 
With  reference  to  the  studies  in  which  I  am  especially  inter- 
ested, I  can  say  that  exhaustive  excavations  in  Cappadocia  and 
throughout  the  entire  extent  of  the  ancient  Hittite  empire,  as 
well  as  excavations  and  researches  in  the  necropoleis  of  Sardes 
and  Miletus,  will  undoubtedly  help  to  solve  many  historical 
problems  and  will  add  materially  to  our  actual  knowledge  and 
to  the  history  of  art. 

(Signed)     E.  POTTIER, 

Membre  de  V  Institut,  Conservateur  au  Musee  du  Louvre. 


Direction  des  Musees  Nationaux, 

(Translation.)      Palais  du  Louvre,  Paris,  25  Novembre  1910. 

I  venture  to  believe  that  American  wealth  will  provide  the 
means  for  the  furthering  of  the  scientific  exploration  ot 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria, — an  exploration  so  necessary,  and  one 
whose  interest  is  patent  to  every  enlightened  man.  At  present 
the  most  important  sites  for  excavation  are  being  pillaged  by 
natives,  whereas  research  must  be  methodical  and  must  always 
be  made  in  the  interest  of  science.  The  real  history  of  peoples, 
the  history  of  provinces  and  cities,  the  history  of  religions  and 
beliefs,  the  history  of  institutions  and  morals,  will  all  be  bene- 
fited thereby  in  a  broad  and  effectual  manner.  The  scholars  of 
all  nations  will  unite  under  the  aegis  of  the  United  States  in  a 
common  effort  to  bring  this  grand  work  to  fruition.  It  must  be 
conducted  to  a  finish  and  without  break;  under  a  director  like 
Professor  Sterrett  it  will  surely  be  successful. 

(Signed)     A.  H^RON  DE  VILLEFOSSE, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Conservateur  au  Musee  du  Louvre; 
Directeur  a  1'  :ficole  Pratique  des  Hautes  Etudes. 


—39—  ■ 

Musee  de  Saint  Germain  (Seine-et-Oise), 
10,  Nov.  1910. 

The  interior  of  Asia  Minor  is  now  opening  to  European  civili- 
zation and  activity.  That  is  both  a  boon  and  a  danger.  The 
archaeologist  must  save  what  the  contractor  of  roads,  railways, 
and  buildings  is  ready  to  smash  or  to  conceal.  Both  above  and 
below  the  surface  of  the  ground  in  that  vast  privileged  country- 
there  are  treasures  of  history,  for  the  loss  of  which  no  develop- 
ment of  prosperity  could  compensate.  So  the  hour  has  come  for 
a  thorough  and  methodical  exploration;  for  such  a  work  men 
and  funds  are  wanted.-  There  are  few  men  more  qualified  than 
Prof.  Sterrett;  all  those  who  have  studied  Asia  Minor  are 
agreed  about  that.  It  is  devoutly  to  be  hoped  that  a  part  of  the 
large  contemplated  donation  may  enable  him  and  his  helpmates 
to  perform  a  most  useful  and  urgent  task.  The  whole  of  our 
intellectual  and  moral  wealth  is  derived,  directly  or  indirectly, 
from  Aryan  and  Semitic  Asia  Minor.  The  civilized  world  would 
applaud,  if  some  fraction  of  great  material  wealth  were  em- 
ployed to  enlarge  our  knowledge  of  the  common  fatherland. 
(Signed)     SALOMON  REINACH, 

Conservateur  du  Musee,  Professeur  a  V  Ecole  du  Louvre; 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Excavator  of  Myrina;  Writer. 

Bibliotheque  Nationale, 
Department  des  Manuscrits, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  le  12  Nov.  1910. 

Many  archaeologists  have  journeyed  in  Asia  Minor;  Mr. 
Ramsay  has  made  many  magnificent  discoveries  there ;  but  it  is 
still  the  promised  land  for  archaeologists.  Only  to  speak  of  one 
matter  not  particularly  well  known,  it  is  from  Asia  Minor  that 
have  come  all  the  magnificent  manuscripts  in  gold  letters  on 
purple  parchment,  of  which  w^e  have  more  or  less  considerable 
fragments,  that  bear  witness  to  the  richness  of  the  Churches  of 
Asia  in  the  time  of  Justinian.  The  Codex  Sinopensis,  so  fortu- 
nately found  ten  years  ago,  is  a  fresh  proof  of  that  fact,  along 
with  the  discovery  of  the  Petropolitanus,  found  thirty  years  ago 
in  the  neighborhood  of  Caesarea  of  Cappadocia. 


—40— 

I  do  not  doubt  that  numerous  discoveries  of  every  kind  will 
reward  the  labors  of  the  explorers,  and  I  wish  I  could  accom- 
pany you  in  a  scientific  journey  for  which  you  are  so  well  pre- 
pared. (Signed)    H.  OMONT, 

Conservateur  des  Manuscrits;  Membre  de  1'  Institut. 

Endorsement  of  the  Imperial  Austrian  Archaeological  Institute. 

University  of  Vienna, 
(Translation.)  Wien,  am  2  November  1910. 

Asia  Minor,  throughout  antiquity  entire  the  most  important 
connecting  link  between  the  civilizations  of  the  Orient  and  the 
Occident,  to-day  in  spots  not  even  satisfactorily  mapped, 
promises  abundant  returns  in  its  every  part;  only  it  demands 
effort  so  vast  that  human  energy  will  be  taxed  to  the  utmost  for 
decades  to  come.  But  the  gain,  which  in  Asia  Minor  comes  from 
every  bold  investment,  is  so  immediate  and  of  such  vast  histori- 
cal importance  that  results  of  equal  value  could  hardly  be  at- 
tained by  archaeological  investigations  in  any  other  quarter. 

Accordingly,  when  it  was  proposed  that  Austria  should  take 
a  part  in  the  rivalry  of  the  nations  for  the  monumental  (and 
other)  relics  of  ancient  Greek  civilization,  Otto  Benndorf,  with 
his  goal  ever  in  mind,  directed  his  chief  attention  to  the  ex- 
ploitation of  Asia  Minor,  and  from  the  time  of  the  first  expedi- 
tion in  1887,  which  led  to  the  discovery  of  the  mausoleum  of 
Gjolbaschi-Trysa  and  to  the  educating  of  a  staff  of  trained 
workers,  he  labored  unceasingly,  in  numerous  undertakings,  to 
accomplish  the  task  he  had  set  before  himself.  The  beginning 
thus  made  in  south-western  Asia  Minor  was  encouraged  in  most 
welcome  fashion  by  the  expedition  carried  out  by  Count  Karl 
Lanckoronski. 

A  subvention  from  His  Highness  the  reigning  Prince  Johann 
II  von  Liechtenstein  enabled  the  Imperial  Academy  of  Sciences 
to  undertake  as  a  special  task  a  Corpus  of  the  Inscriptions  of 
Asia  Minor.  With  this  in  view  systematical  journeys  were 
made,  first  in  the  south-western  and  southern,  and  then  in  the 
western  provinces,  and  the  results  were  published  in  prelimi- 
nary reports  of  the  Imperial  Academy  of  Sciences. 


-41— 

The  other  Austrian  undertakings  on  the  soil  of  Asia  Minor, 
in  particular  the  excavations  at  Ephesus,  passed  in  1898  into  the 
control  of  the  Imperial  Austrian  Archaeological  Institute, 
which,  in  pursuance  of  a  tradition  now  more  than  three  decades 
old,  pays  especial  attention  to  them  and  for  that  purpose  main- 
tains its  own  Secretariate  in  Smyrna. 

The  enterprises  undertaken  by  Austrian  scholars  form  [for 
that  matter]  but  a  comparatively  small  bit  of  work,  when  we 
think  of  the  superabundance  of  enterprises  which  Asia  Minor, 
with  its  sheerly  inexhaustible  number  of  seats  of  culture,  offers 
to  us,  and  for  that  reason  we  should  rejoice  exceedingly,  if  you 
could  succeed  in  bringing  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  into 
the  sphere  of  interest  and  action  of  a  homogeneous  and  perma- 
nent institution  created  by  the  extraordinary  munificence  of 
one  of  your  great  Promoters  of  Civilization.  ^Ye  believe  that 
it  will  be  possible  to  reach  a  mutual  understanding  in  all  ques- 
tions in  which  your  new  undertaking  overlaps  into  the  terri- 
tory in  which  we  have  hitherto  been  working,  and  in  particular 
we  hope  that  your  extensive  investigations  will  make  valuable 
additions  to  our  collection  of  inscriptions  from  Asia  Minor.  If 
by  reason  of  our  experience  in  the  Orient,  now  covering  many 
years,  we  can  in  any  way  aid  the  undertaking  inaugurated  by 
you,  it  will  give  us  pleasure  to  render  such  aid,  and  we  should 
be  particularly  rejoiced,  if  it  could  be  possible  for  both  parties 
to  unite  their  scientific  forces  in  a  common  work  that  has  a 
common  goal  in  view. 

(Signed)     EMIL  KEISCH. 

Endorsement  of  German  Universities. 

(Translation.)  University  of  Berlin. 

Every  archaeologist  who  understands  the  situation  will  ar- 
dently desire  to  further  to  the  best  of  his  ability  a  scheme  at 
once  so  important  and  so  well  worked  out,  and  to  ask  for  its 
realization,  and  so  I  venture  to  address  you  in  order  to  support 
the  petition  in  the  warmest  manner  and  to  beg  that  the  subven- 
tion asked  for  be  granted. 

For  most  of  the  immense  territory  of  the  peninsula  of  Asia 


—42— 

Minor  we  have  hardly  got  bej^ond  a  superficial  reconnoissance, 
in  which  what  lay  in  the  way  was  found  and  published.  Even 
the  maps,  as  pointed  out  at  length  by  Sterrett,  are  wholly  un- 
satisfactory and  whole  regions  are  still  terra  incognita.  And 
yet  Asia  Minor  harbors  numerous  important  problems  that  can 
only  be  solved  by  a  systematic  exploration  conducted  according 
to  a  concerted  plan.  In  the  first  place  the  complicated  ques- 
tions of  the  more  ancient  ethnography  of  Asia  Minor  must  be 

answered The  recent  discoveries  in  Boghaz-kioi  have 

shown  how  immeasurably  great  are  the  discoveries  that  may 
be  made,  and  it  was  these  discoveries  that  led  to  the  exhaustive 
investigation  of  this  great  site. 

Another  enterprise  is  the  discovery  and  scientific  description 
of  the  monuments  of  the  ancient  native  art  of  which  the  rock- cut 
tombs  of  Paphlagonia  and  Phrygia  are  known,  partially  at  least, 
whereas  very  much  still  remains  to  be  done  for  Lydia,  and  with- 
out doubt  even  the  groups  of  monuments  mentioned  will  be  very 
considerably  augmented  (and  this  is  true  of  those  of  Cilicia  and 
Cappadocia). 

But  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  for  the  Hellenistic  period  is 
of  no  less  importance.  As  yet  we  have  only  the  most  meagre 
information  in  regard  to  the  organization  of  the  Seleucid  king- 
dom, the  development  of  municipal  government,  the  spread  of 
Greek  culture  and  the  assimilation  of  the  native  nationalities  by 
Hellenism,  and  what  information  we  have  is  based  in  the  main 
on  isolated  inscriptions  which  are  of  the  greatest  importance ;  it 
may  be  assumed  with  certainty  that  this  material  will  be  in- 
creased very  greatly.  Connected  therewith  are  the  monuments 
of  the  Pergamenian  and  Roman  period,  in  which  the  Hellenistic 
civilization  in  Asia  Minor  attained  to  its  fullest  development. 
And  this  civilization  has  the  greatest  signficance  for  the  under- 
standing of  THE  EARLY  CHRISTIAN  PERIOD.  For,  as  is 
well  known,  no  country  was  more  important  for  the  spread  and 
internal  development  of  Christianity  in  the  first  centuries  than 
was  Asia  Minor,  and  no  country  received  the  new  religion  with 
such  eagerness;  apart  from  the  Nile-valley  only  the  Roman 
Province  of  Africa  can  be  compared  with  it.    Asia  Minor  main- 


—43— 

tained  this  leading  role  throughout  the  whole  long  epoch  of  the 
Byzantine  empire,  whose  real  centre  lay  entirely  in  Asia  Minor. 
And  in  the  Byzantine  period  in  Asia  Minor  a  series  of  the  most 
weighty  problems  in  the  history  of  civilization  await  their  solu- 
tion, especially  in  the  province  of  the  development  of  the  Orien- 
tal-Byzantine Art. 

It  need  hardly  be  said  that  what  is  true  of  Asia  Minor  is  also 
in  the  main,  true  of  the  provinces  of  Syria.  For  the  Hellenistic 
period,  for  the  history  of  the  Seleucid  empire,  and  for  the  begin- 
nings of  Christianity  the  problems  are  the  same  as  in  Asia  Mi- 
nor. But  the  scientific  exploitation  of  Syria  is  far  behind  that 
of  Asia  Minor.  I  need  only  point  out  here  that  of  the  numerous 
mounds  of  debris  that  covers  the  ancient  cities,  and  royal  seats 
of  Northern  Syria,  on  the  Amanus,  Sendjirli  alone  has  been  in- 
vestigated up  to  the  present  time,  while  the  ruins  of  Carchemish 
(Djerabis)  that  lie  on  the  surface,  are  insufficiently  known;  the 
same  is  true  of  the  cities  of  the  imperial  times,  Baalbekk  and 
Palmyra.  Similar  problems  exist  everywhere  in  the  whole 
country  (Syria),  and  they  need  not  be  enumerated  separately. 

The  project  which  Professor  Sterrett  has  developed  attempts 
to  attack  in  a  most  comprehensive  and  systematic  way  the  prob- 
lems that  I  have  briefly  outlined.  It  is  evident  that  for  the  exe- 
cution of  his  plan  a  long  series  of  years  and  large  and  certain 
resources  are  necessary ;  without  such  certainty  it  could  not 
even  be  undertaken.  But  it  is  a  programme  with  which  hardly 
any  other  one  can  vie  in  respect  to  importance  for  the  most 
varied  branches  of  science.  For  that  reason  this  Project,  as 
outlined,  is  worthy,  if  any  scheme  is  worthy.  That  Professor 
Sterrett  is  fitted  to  lead  such  an  expedition  has  been  proved  by 
his  past  work,  and  it  is  confirmed  afresh  by  the  present  projec;t. 

(Signed)  DR.  EDUARD  MEYER, 

Professor  an  der  Universitat  Berlin,  Mitglied  der  Koniglich- 
preussischen  Akademie  der  Wissenschaften. 


—44— 

(Translation.)  University  of  Berlin. 

It  is  with  lively  interest  that  I  have  heard  that  a  man  as  tried 
and  experienced  as  Mr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  can  place  his  ability 
and  his  powers  of  organization  at  the  service  of  an  undertaking 
looking  to  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  on  a  large  scale.  As 
one  who  has  an  especially  warm  interest  in  antiquities  and  in- 
scriptions I  should  welcome  gladly  such  an  undertaking.  The 
practical  sense  of  the  explorer  mentioned  will  see  to  it  that  at- 
tainable goals  will  be  striven  for  and  that  the  problems  under- 
taken will  be  solved.  The  reprehensible  maxim  ''in  magnis 
voluisse  satis"  has  done  much  harm  to  science ;  an  archaeological 
undertaking,  and  more  particularly,  an  excavation,  is  not  to  be 
judged  by  the  "voluisse,"  nor  even  by  the  ''finds,"  but  exclu- 
sively by  the  publication.  But  precisely  in  that  matter  the  name 
of  Sterrett  would  seem  to  guarantee  that  the  Publication  will  be 

completed Another  point  must  be  regarded  as 

a  matter  of  course,  namely,  an  agreement  with  those  who  are 
already  in  Asia  Minor — with  the  Austrians  (Tituli  Asiae  Mi- 
noris),  the  Berlin  Museum  (that  is,  with  Dr.  Th.  Wiegand,  Con- 
stantinople), Philippson  (Geological  Exploration  of  Western 
Asia  Minor).  An  association  with  the  experienced  leaders  of 
these  undertakings  will  make  the  expedition  doubly  attractive. 

All  that  can  be  done  for  the  improvement  of  the  map  will  be 
welcomed  with  joy. 

But  the  best  thing  that  I  can  wish  is  a  good  and  a  rich  field 
for  excavations.  Incidentally  I  remark  that  my  private  long- 
ings are  directed  more  to  the  Greeks  than  to  the  Barbarians, 
more  to  the  historical  period  than  to  the  Origines,  but  still  every 
really  scientific  mind  must  welcome  every  scientific  discovery,  a 
philologist  must  welcome  the  discovery  of  a  new  bug,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  the  scientist  would  welcome  the  discovery  of  a 
new  letter  from  Alexander  the  Great. 

(Signed)  FREIHERR  HILLER  VON  GAERTRINGEN, 

Professor  in  the  University  of  Berlin ;  Excavator  of  Thera. 


—45— 

(Translation.)  University  of  Berlin. 

It  has  come  to  our  knowledge  that  Professor  Sterrett  of  Cor- 
nell University  has  in  view  to  ask  for  financial  support  to  en- 
able him  to  carry  on  a  work  of  research  in  Asia  Minor,  and 
that  it  is  a  matter  of  importance  for  him  to  have  the  opinion  of 
foreign  experts.  Accordingly  we  shall  give  expression  briefly 
to  our  views  in  regard  to  the  scientific  questions ;  the  personality 
of  Mr.  Sterrett  is  so  tried  that  it  needs  no  recommendation.  On 
the  western  sea-board  of  Asia  Minor  almost  all  enlightened  na- 
tions have  important  undertakings,  some  of  which  have  been 
completed,  while  with  others  they  will  be  engaged  for  years  to 
come.  America  undertook  the  splendid  task  of  excavating  the 
provincial  city  of  Assos,  and  then  dropped  it.  In  the  interior, 
on  the  contrary,  in  spite  of  many  travels,  made  more  particu- 
larly by  Sir  William  Ramsay,  the  investigation  of  the  monu- 
ments that  are  above  the  ground  has  not  been  carried  out. 
Thanks,  particularly  to  the  building  of  railways,  the  country  is 
being  settled  more  and  more,  and  destruction  follows  in  its 
wake.  On  the  other  hand  in  the  last  decades  scholars  have  been 
paying  more  and  more  attention  to  the  pre-christian  and  to  the 
early  Christian  periods,  and  also  to  the  Byzantine  and  Seljukian 
periods.  Accordingly,  it  is  a  very  great  and  a  very  urgent  un- 
dertaking to  save  for  science  all  that  is  still  above  ground,  build- 
ings, sculptures,  paintings,  inscriptions,  before  it  be  too  late. 
Aye,  surface  research  w^ork  must  be  regarded  as  more  important 
than  any  excavation  of  a  site  that  is  not  threatened  by  destruc- 
tion because  used  as  a  quarry  for  building  material.  But  on  the 
other  hand,  that  very  many  seats  of  ancient  civilization  in  the 
interior  of  Asia  Minor  are  in  need  of  systematic  excavation 
becomes  more  patent  every  day,  now  that  the  historical  im- 
portance of  the  pre-hellenic  peoples  of  Cappadocia  and  Cilicia 
has  been  proven  from  the  Oriental  documents  and  latterly  from 
discoveries  in  Asia  Minor  itself. 

It  is  not  our  business  to  give  advice  in  regard  to  the  combina- 
tion of  excavations  and  surface  research,  or  in  regard  to  the 
limits  of  this  or  that  kind  of  investigation.  But  it  is  our  opinion 
that  the  interior  of  Asia  Minor  is  a  region  where  large  resources 


-^6— 

and  that  too  for  a  long  period  of  time  are  necessary  in  order  to 
investigate  and  to  preserve  historical  monuments  of  universal 
importance,  and  there  can  hardly  be  a  difference  of  opinion  on 
that  subject  among  scholars  the  world  over.  The  promoters 
of  the  plan  may  be  sure  that  they  will  render  a  great  service  to 
historical  science  in  the  widest  sense,  if  they  adopt  and  carry 
out  the  plans  of  Mr.  Sterrett. 

(Signed)     AD.  ERMAN, 

KEKULE  VON  STRADONITZ, 

A.  HARNACK, 

ULRICH      VON     WILAMOWITZ- 
MOELLENDORFF, 

OTTO  HIRSCHFELD. 
In  regard  to  this  utterance  of  these  scholars  (including  the 
letters  from  the  other  Professors  of  the  University  of  Berlin) 
Sir  William  Ramsay  writes : 

My  Dear  Sterrett : — 

You  could  not  have  a  stronger  support  than  this. 

I  find  that  people  refrain  from  supporting  (your)  scheme,  lest 
it  should  interfere  with  me ;  so  I  must  explain  (to  them)  that  I 
am  in  hearty  sympathy. 

(Signed)  W.  M.  RAMSAY. 

University  of  Berlin, 
General-Verwaltung  der  Koniglichen  Museen. 
Kgl.  Museum  fur  Volkerkunde. 
Berlin,  den  22  August,  1910. 

I  hasten  to  congratulate  you  on  the  energetic  step  you  are 
taking,  and  I  wish  you  a  full  measure  of  success.  In  particular 
I  could  not  make  use  of  fitter  words  than  those  used  by  Erman, 
Kekule,  Harnack,  v.  Wilamowitz,  and  Hirschfeld.  There  is  in- 
deed no  doubt  that  surface  research  is  very  urgent  both  in 
Anatolia  and  Syria,  for  each  day  brings  with  it  the  destruction 
of  important  material.  I  really  do  not  know  how  an  enlight- 
ened institution  could  invest  money  in  a  more  useful  way  than 
in  surface  research  in  Western  Asia. 


—47— 

If  a  large  sum  could  be  granted,  I  could  wish  that  you  might 
excavate  Tell  Neb-u-mind,  the  ancient  Kadesh  on  the  Orontes 
River,  the  famous  capital  of  the  Hittites  in  the  times  of  Rameses 
II.  I  know  no  better  place  in  Western  Asia.  It  would  be  an  un- 
dertaking demanding  from  thirty  to  forty  years  for  its  accom- 
plishment and  it  would  require  at  the  very  least  from  $20,000  to 
$25,000  each  year,  but  the  results  would  certainly  be  most 
glorious,  and  would  probably  cast  into  the  shade  all  other  great 
excavations  in  the  Orient. 

(Signed)    PROF.  VON  LUSCHAN. 

(Translation.)  University  of  Berlin,  26  Sept.  1910. 

An  exploration  on  such  a  scale  is  sure  to  yield  rich  results  of 
the  most  various  kinds.  It  must  be  placed  on  a  firm  basis,  and 
must  not  be  limited  to  two  or  three  seasons,  but  go  on  regularly 
year  after  year,  with  such  means,  and  according  to  such  meth- 
ods, as  place  and  circumstances  demand,  much  in  the  same  way 
as  our  Deutsche  Orientgesellschaft  works  in  Assyria  and  Babyl- 
onia. If  you  succeed  in  carrying  out  your  plan,  you  will  open 
a  new  epoch  for  our  knowledge  of  antiquity. 

ED.  SACHAU. 

University  of  Berlin. 
(Translation.)  Berlin,  den  27  August  1910. 

I  must  call  attention  to  the  tremendous  importance  of  the  pro- 
posed undertaking,  both  from  the  point  of  view  of  science  and 
of  the  history  of  civilization.  If  an  endowed  institution 
should  make  a  portion  of  its  means  available  for  archaeological 
research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  it  would  contribute  thereby 
not  merely  to  the  lifting  of  the  veil  from  a  past  that  leads  us 
back  to  the  cradle  of  mankind,  but  it  would  also  bring  a  stream 
of  light  and  civilization  to  a  belated  and  half-petrified  world 
that  is  now  for  the  first  time  beginning  to  be  receptive  of  the 
enlightened  ideals  of  the  Occident.  In  this  respect,  too,  the 
realization  of  the  proposed  plan  would  enable  us  to  gain  a  broad 
and  a  blessed  outlook  into  the  future. 

(Signed)  PROFESSOR  SCHIEMANN, 
Professor  of  History  in  the  University  of  Berlin. 


—48— 

University  of  Berlin. 
(Translation.)  am  Oct.  1910. 

For  the  success  of  a  great  undertaking,  as  planned  by  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett,  three  things  are  necessary:  1.  the  plan  must  be 
good,  2.  the  man  who  is  to  execute  it  must  be  good,  3.  the  money 
for  its  execution  must  be  abundant.  When  all  these  good 
things  are  combined,  as  they  are  in  the  present  case,  great 
things  may  be  hoped  for. 

(Signed)     H.  DIELS. 

University  of  Berlin, 
(Translation.)  Berlin,  d.  28  Oktober  1910. 

I  subscribe  most  heartily  to  the  emphatic  approval  given  to 
the  plan  by  certain  Professors  of  the  University  of  Berlin. 
(Signed)     PROFESSOR  DR.  ERICH  PREUNER. 

University  of  Berlin, 
Dec.  16,  1910. 
I  am  cpite  certain  that  the  highly  cultured  Americans  of 
great  wealth  will  recognize  the  great  blessing  which  the  under- 
taking planned  by  Professor  Sterrett  and  Sir  W.  M.  Ramsay 
will  bring  to  science  and  to  the  knowledge  of  the  world's  cul- 
ture. There  is  in  my  opinion  no  doubt  that  such  an  expedition, 
if  furnished  with  sufficient  means,  will  make  discoveries  that 
will  astonish  the  entire  cultured  world. 

(Signed)     EDUARD  NORDEN. 

Embassy  of  the  United  States  of  America, 

Berlin,  August  30,  1910. 
After  the  favorable  testimony  regarding  your  proposal  offered 
by  men  so  highly  qualified  to  give  an  opinion  as  Sir  William 
Ramsay  and  the  Professors  of  the  University  of  Berlin  I  feel 
that  any  word  from  me  would  almost  seem  impertinent ;  but  I 
trust  it  will  not  seem  inappropriate  for  me  to  say  that  you  could 
not  have  higher  approval  in  Germany  than  that  contained  in  the 
letters  printed  in  your  pamphlet. 

(Signed)  DAVID  J.  HILL. 


—49— 

University  of  Jena, 
(Translation.)  Jena,  31  October  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  magnificent  plan  for  a  systematical  ex- 
ploration of  Asia  Minor  and  Northern  Syria  can  be  sure  of  the 
warmest  welcome  by  all  who  have  a  scientific  interest  in  the 
fortunes  of  Asia  Minor.  Their  number  is  exceedingly  large. 
The  great  historical  importance  of  this  highway  of  the  nations 
becomes  ever  clearer,  for  it  is  in  Asia  Minor  that  the  weightiest 
problems  of  ancient,  oriental  and  classical  history  meet  and 
cross;  it  is  in  Asia  Minor  that  we  are  continually  discovering 
new  strata  of  the  many  civilizations  that  have  swept  over  it; 
it  is  the  civilization  of  Asia  Minor  that  has  radiated  cultural 
influences  even  beyond  the  limits  of  antiquity.  But  in  spite  of 
numerous  journeys  and  excavations,  there  is  an  immeasurably 
wide  and  highly  promising  field  in  which  work  has  hardly  been 
begun.  And  the  gigantic  undertaking  can  be  accomplished  and 
all  treasures  brought  to  light  only  by  a  systematic  research  that 
exploits  the  country  historically  and  archaeologically  step  by 
step  and  in  every  direction,  and  for  which  sufficient  means  have 
been  guaranteed  for  a  long  period  of  time.  The  personality  of 
J.  R.  S.  Sterrett,  who  is  himself  distinguished  as  a  scientific 
worker  and  traveller,  makes  it  certain  that  the  plan  will  be 
carried  out  in  a  really  scientific  way.  It  is  most  highly  desirable- 
that  the  subvention  asked  for  be  granted. 

(Signed)     WALTHER  JUDEICH, 
BOTHO  GRAEF, 
B.  DELBRUCK, 
W.  STAERK, 

A.  UNGNAD, 

H.  LIETZMANN, 
E.  DIEHL, 
W.  LIEBENAM, 
DR.  GEORG  GOTZ, 
R.  HIRZEL, 
EUGEN  WILHELM, 

B.  PICK. 


—50— 

Munzkabinett  des  Herzoglichen  Hauses, 
(Translation.)  Gotha,  1  Septemb.  1910. 

The  most  eminent  archaeologists  of  all  countries  have  borne 
abundant  testimony  to  the  enormous  gains  that  mankind  at 
large  would  reap  for  the  knowledge  of  its  earliest  history  from 
the  proposed  undertaking,  and  I  can  only  agree  with  what  they 
have  said.  But  they  have  not  mentioned  the  department  of 
^greatest  interest  to  me,  and  so  I  may  point  out  that  a  systematic 
exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  would  probably  bring  re- 
sults of  the  greatest  importance  for  Numismatics.  I  may  men- 
tion the  fact  that  coined  money,  so  indispensable  to-day,  was  in- 
vented in  Asia  Minor.  Excavations  will  disclose  to  us  what 
kinds  of  money  were  in  use  before  the  invention  of  coined  money 
and  how  the  Babylonian  standard  came  to  Europe  through  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria ;  it  will  be  possible  to  assign  to  special  regions 
the  numerous  kinds  of  most  ancient  coins  of  unknown  proveni- 
ence by  observing  the  frequency  of  their  recurrence,  and  there- 
by we  should  be  able  to  solve  the  old  problem  as  to  whether  the 
Greeks  or  the  Lydians  invented  coined  money.  More  than  that, 
the  store  of  ancient  coins  of  later  date  and  known  provenience 
would  be  greatly  increased,  and,  as  heretofore,  these  coins 
would  shed  fresh  light  on  the  history,  the  governmental  ad- 
ministration, and  the  religion  of  cities  and  countries.  It  is 
therefore  to  be  desired  that  in  the  expeditions  of  the  future  at 
least  some  of  the  members  should  be  instructed  to  acquire  in 
advance  a  knowledge  of  Numismatics,  in  order  that  the  proper 
attention  may  be  paid  to  coins,  for  these  small  objects  often 
teach  us  more  than  larger  ones. 

Scholars  are  in  unanimous  agreement  that  the  leadership  of 
so  great  and  many-sided  an  undertaking  could  not  be  given  to 
any  one  with  more  appropriateness  than  to  Professor  Sterrett. 
My  agreement  therewith  would  be  unnecessary,  but  for  the  fact 
that  I  am  in  a  position  to  bring  into  the  field  the  name  of  one 
whose  voice,  though  mute  in  the  grave,  is  still  authoritative. 
When  Professor  Sterrett  was  living  in  Berlin  after  his  return 
from  the  Wolfe  Expedition,  at  the  request  of  Theodor  Momm- 
sen    I  helped  him  work  up  for  the  Supplementa  of  the  Corpus 


—51— 

Inscriptionum  Latinarum  the  Latin  inscriptions  collected  by 
him  on  his  two  great  journeys.  I  remember  how  pleasant  and 
instructive  this  work  with  Professor  Sterrett  was  to  me,  and 
I  know  the  respect  which  Professor  Mommsen  entertained  for 
the  achievements  of  the  American  scholar,  and  how  he  admired 
the  endurance  displayed  on  those  difficult  journeys.  If  Momm- 
sen were  alive  to-day  he  would  without  doubt  greet  the  pro- 
posed undertaking  with  the  greatest  joy  and  support  it. 

If  the  undertaking  can  be  carried  out  in  the  fullest  extent 
planned  by  Professor  Sterrett,  it  will  bring  the  greatest  honor 
to  America  and  to  those  who  bring  the  plan  to  fruition. 

There  are  still  people  in  all  European  countries  who  are  out- 
raged because  monuments  of  art  and  antiquity  are  wandering 
to  America,  and  who  feel  that  the  Americans  have  no  right  to 
own  such  things.  These  people  would  be  appeased  and  would 
recognize  the  fact  that  American  collections  have  equal  rights 
with  European  collections,  if  they  could  learn  from  the  under- 
taking of  so  tremendous  a  scientific  task  that,  in  this  line  too, 
America  knows,  not  only  how  to  TAKE,  but  also  how  to  GIVE. 

(Signed)  DR.  BEHRENDT  PICK, 

Direktor  des  Miinzkabinetts ;  Professor  der  Numismatik  an 
der  Universitat  Jena.  Hon.  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Numismatic 
Society  of  London,  etc. 


University  of  Munich, 
(Translation.)  Miinchen,  3  Nov.  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett 's  plan  for  an  exhaustive  scientific  explora- 
tion of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  seems  to  us  to  deserve  every  con- 
ceivable encouragement.  By  his  former  work  and  journeys 
Professor  Sterrett  has  won  the  right  to  be  regarded  as  the 
natural  leader  of  such  an  expedition.  His  clearly  stated  plan  to 
undertake  an  exhaustive  exploration  of  every  separate  province, 
to  be  inaugurated  by  journeys  and  excavations,  to  be  continued 
for  a  long  period  of  time,  to  be  conducted  in  friendly  coopera- 
tion with  the  work  of  other  nations  and  in  concert  with  its 
leaders,  meets  with  our  complete  approbation.     Just  in  pro- 


—52— 

portion  as  the  modern  era,  with  its  easy  means  of  intercom- 
munication, is  taking  rapid  possession  of  the  ancient  home  of 
civilization,  now  but  just  awaking  from  its  long  sleep,  just  so 
imperative  becomes  the  necessity  for  a  careful  historical  ex- 
ploration, which  takes  within  its  purview  and  saves  from  de- 
struction all  the  remains  of  antiquity.  Nothing  short  of  an 
organization  that  is  to  live  for  a  long  time  and  that  has  large 
means  at  its  command  can  achieve  really  lasting  results  in  this 
field.  By  endowing  the  undertaking  liberally,  an  institution  or 
a  man  will  be  doing  a  service  to  the  knowledge  of  the  history  of 
human  civilization  that  cannot  easily  be  valued  highly  enough. 

(Signed)     FR.  VOLLMER, 

FR.  W.  FREIHERR  v.  BISSING, 

A.  REHM, 

A.  HEISENBERG, 

F.  v.  REBER, 

E.  LOMMATZSCH, 

E.  DRERUP, 

W.  OTTO, 

PAUL  WOLTERS, 

0.  CRUSIUS, 

1.  V.  MULLER, 
ROBERT  POHLMANN, 
C.  WEYMAN. 


University  of  Munich. 
(Translation.)  Redaktion  der  Byzantinischen  Zeitschrift. 

I  am  firmly  convinced  that  the  realization  of  the  magnificent 
project  would  be  a  boon  to  science  in  an  especially  high  degree, 
and  the  branches  which  I  represent  in  particular,  namely,  the 
investigation  of  the  Early  Christian  and  Byzantine  periods  of 
history  in  Asia  Minor,  would  be  largely  benefited  thereby.  If  an 
American  institution  could  supply  the  means  for  the  com- 
plete realization  and  execution  of  the  project  worked  out  by  so 
distinguished  an  expert  as  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett,  it  would  do  a  tre- 
mendous and  a  lasting  service  to  science,  and  would  add  a  new 


—53— 

and  an  imperishable  leaf  to  America's  crown  won  in  the  prov- 
ince of  humanity's  idealism. 

(Signed)  K.  KRUMBACHER. 
Redakteur  der  Byz.  Zeitschrift;  o.  Professor  an  der  Univer- 
sitat  Miinchen;    Mitglied    der   k.  bayr.  Akademie   der   Wiss. ; 
korresp.  Mitglied    der  Akademien    in    Paris,  London,    Wien, 
Petersburg,  u.  s.  w.  (Recently  deceased). 


University  of  Gottingen, 
(Translation.)  Gottingen,  18  September  1910. 

I  can  only  concur,  with  the  deepest  conviction,  in  the  prin- 
ciples and  views  laid  dow^n  by  you  in  your  Outline  of  a  Plan 
for  Archaeological  Research,  etc.,  and  my  colleagues  whose 
names  are  subscribed  hereto  agree  with  me  in  this  view.  Sys- 
tematic research  in  the  interior  of  Asia  Minor  is  certainly  one 
of  the  most  urgent  and  most  promising  tasks  of  historical  sci- 
ence in  its  widest  sense.  We  join  the  representative  scholars 
consulted  by  you  in  the  heart  felt  wish  that  the  means  may  be 
made  available  for  this  purpose,  and  we  agree  with  them  in 
their  confidence  in  you  as  the  leader  of  the  great  undertaking. 

In  regard  to  its  conduct  we  beg  leave  to  make  the  following 
remarks:  1.  The  work  should  be  undertaken  province  by 
province,  as  you  yourself  point  out.  2.  Excavations  must  be 
undertaken  after  a  thorough-going  search  for  everything  that 
is  still  above  the  ground.  Sir  William  Ramsay  is  correct  in  his 
statement  that  excavations  alone  can  make  real  and  substantial 
additions  to  our  knowledge.  It  is  true  that  every  systemati- 
cally undertaken  and  properly  conducted  excavation  guaran- 
tees important  results,  even  though  these  results  are  often, 
perhaps  are  usually,  different  from  what  was  expected.  3.  From 
the  outset  a  part  of  the  programme  must  be  an  exhaustive  and 
a  speedy  publication  of  the  results.  4.  For  this  purpose  a  per- 
manent staff  of  scholars  devoting  themselves  exclusively  to  this 
work  is  necessary.  5.  And  it  would  be  greatly  to  be  desired,  if, 
in  addition  to  this  permanent  staff,  a  number  of  young  scholars, 
chosen  from  the  various  nations,  might  be  allowed  to  come  in 


—54— 

as  transient  workers,  in  order  to  help  the  good  work  along,  and 
in  order  at  the  same  time  to  acquire  the  incomparable  training 
that  must  needs  result  from  such  cooperation. 

May  the  entire  plan  soon  be  realized  and  be  conducted  to  a 
successful  issue, — that  is  our  wish  for  you  and  for  science. 
(Signed)     G.  KORTE, 

F.  LEO, 

P.  WENDLAND, 

G.  BUSOLT, 
M.  POHLENZ, 
K.  SETHE. 

University  of  Miinster. 
(Translation.)  Miinster  i.  W.,  den  16  Oktober,  1910. 

The  problems  in  Asia  Minor  that  still  await  solution  by  mod- 
ern science  are  so  great  that  they  demand  the  united  effort  of 
all  enlightened  nations.  The  antiquities  that  are  still  extant 
above  ground,  and  in  part  even  those  that  lie  beneath  the  soil, 
are  threatened  with  annihilation  because  of  the  steadily  increas- 
ing development  of  the  country,  and  for  that  reason  the  neces- 
sity of  rescuing  them  from  destruction  has  become  so  impera- 
tive that  the  slow  work,  alone  possible  with  the  modest  means 
hitherto  available  to  European  scholars,  no  longer  suffices. 
Therefore  all  scholars  must  rejoice  at  the  hopeful  prospect  that 
America  may  furnish  to  science  the  means  wherewith  to  under- 
take on  a  large  scale  this  necessary  work.  This  joy  is  all  the 
greater,  because,  along  with  the  prospect  of  seeing  the  work 
itself  inaugurated,  there  comes  the  certainty  that  the  man  who 
could  have  the  enlightened  wish  to  promote  research  so  greatly, 
will  also  find  the  right  man,  with  the  will  and  the  ability,  to 
conduct  the  work,  and  that  young  scholars,  not  merely  from 
his  native  country,  but  from  the  world  at  large,  will  be  found  in 
abundance,  whose  joy  it  will  be  to  place  themselves  at  his  dis- 
posal at  all  times. 

(Signed)     0.  SEECK, 

W.  KROLL, 

PAUL  CAUER, 


~55— 

K.  MUNSCHER, 
P.  E.  SONNENBERG, 
0.  HOFFMANN, 
F.  KOEPP. 

University  of  Leipzig, 
(Translation.)  Leipzig,  27  November  1910. 

The  undersigned  Professors  of  all  the  sciences  of  the  past,  of 
geography,  of  church  history,  and  of  the  history  of  art,  in  the 
University  of  Leipzig,  endorse  the  petition  of  Professor  Sterrett 
with  the  greatest  emphasis,  and  beg  that  his  enlightened  coun- 
trymen may  supply  him  with  a  staff  of  scholars  and  architects 
and  put  it  into  his  power  to  undertake  at  an  early  date  and  to 
carry  through  with  all  the  speed  possible  a  thorough  archae- 
ological exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  by  means  of 
journeys  of  investigation  and  excavation,  for  the  whole  field  of 
antiquity,  including  the  early  Christian  period. 

The  importance  and  the  urgency  of  such  an  undertaking  for 
all  the  sciences  named  above  does  not  stand  in  need  of  proof, 
in  view  of  all  that  has  already  been  said  on  the  subject,  nor 
does  Professor  Sterrett 's  eminent  fitness  to  direct  the  great 
undertaking.  Professor  Sterrett  himself  has  clearly  stated  that 
the  work  already  begun  by  scholars  of  other  nations  in  the  same 
wide  field  shall  in  no  way  be  interfered  with,  because  they  are  in 
no  sense  antagonistic  to  his  comprehensive  plans. 
(Signed)     J.  H.  LIPSIUS, 

FRANZ  STUDNICZKA, 
ULRICH  WILCKEN, 
ERICH  BETHE, 
R.  HEINZE,      ' 
V.  GARDTHAUSEN, 
THEODOR  SCHREIBER, 
EDGAR  MARTINI, 
HEINRICH  ZIMMERN, 
GEORG  STEINDORFF, 
F.  H.  WEISSBACH, 
JOSEPH  PARTSCH, 
ALB.  HAUCK. 


—56— 

University  of  Leipzig, 
Arehaologisches  Institut,   Leipzig,   Universitat,  Albertimim  2. 
(Translation.)  den  28  August  1910. 

The  realization  of  the  plan  for  an  exhaustive  exploration  of 
Asia  Minor  is  of  course  for  every  archaeologist  "a  consumma- 
tion devoutly  to  be  wish'd. "  In  order  to  prove  this  in  detail,  I 
should  have  to  repeat  what  so  many  scholars,  among  them 
Germans,  have  written  to  you  with  more  or  less  exhaustiveness. 
Even  the  natural  limits  of  such  an  undertaking,  demanded  by 
respect  for  the  work  of  other  nations  already  begun,  have 
already  been  pointed  out,  for  instance,  in  the  letter  of  Wiegand. 
Therefore  I  may  content  myself  with  the  emphatic  statement  of 
my  agreement  with  the  unanimous  wishes  of  scholars,  and 
with  the  expression  of  the  hope  that,  with  abundant  means  at 
your  command,  you  may  return  right  soon  and  right  often  to 
Anatolia,  whence  you  have  already  brought  to  us  so  much  that 
is  valuable. 

(Signed)  FRANZ  STUDNICZKA, 

Ord.  Prof,  der  Archaeologie. 

University  of  Konigsberg, 

Translation.)  Konigsberg  i.  Pr.,  den  12  Oktober  1910. 

We  welcome  with  joy  Mr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett's  plan  for  scien- 
tific research  and  excavations  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  on  a 
large  scale,  and  we  feel  justified  in  predicting  that  the  expedi- 
tion will  be  abundantly  successful,  both  because,  by  his  former 
explorations,  Mr.  Sterrett  has  proved  his  fitness  for  the  calling, 
and  because  he  has  the  cooperation  of  so  excellent  an  expert  on 
Asia  Minor  as  Sir  William  Ramsay.  The  regions  in  question 
have  all  been  explored  merely  on  the  surface  or  else  not  at  all, 
and  they  promise  the  richest  results  for  the  extension  of  our 
knowledge  not  only  in  geography,  but  more  particularly  in  all 
branches  of  history,  archaeology,  and  historical  ethnography. 
With  our  whole  heart  we  wish  for  Mr.  Sterrett  the  award  of  a 
very  large  subvention  so  that  he  may  be  enabled  to  carry  out 


—57— 

his  plan  fully.  For  he  cannot  attain  his  lofty  goal  unless  he  be 
supplied  with  money  in  abundance.  Many  scholars  will  be 
greatly  pleased,  if  a  staff  of  natural  scientists  could  accompany 
the  expedition. 

(Signed)     A.  LUDAVICH, 
P.  ROST, 
J.  TOLKIEHN, 
FRANZ  RtJHL, 
SCHULTHESS, 
0.  ROSSBACH, 
R.  SCHUBERT, 
R.  WUNSCH, 
M.  BRAUN. 


University  of  Kiel, 
(Translation.)  Kiel,  Nov.  23,  1910. 

We  hail  Professor  Sterrett's  project  with  the  keenest  joy  and 
approval,  because  the  scientific  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria  belongs  to  the  most  urgent  tasks  confronting  scholars, 
and  because  the  development  of  the  country,  now  advancing 
more  rapidly,  endangers  the  ancient  monuments  more  and 
more  every  year.  What  has  been  done  hitherto  in  these  coun- 
tries by  different  nations  guarantees  that  the  research  planned 
by  Sterrett  will  be  conducted  with  a  complete  understanding  of 
the  peculiarities  of  the  country  and  with  the  accumulated  ex- 
perience of  modern  science.  Sterrett  himself  is  well  known  as 
an  admirable  expert  and  successful  explorer  of  Asia  Minor  and 
in  Sir  William  Ramsay  he  will  have  a  tried  and  experienced 
counsellor  and  helper. 

If  Sterrett's  hopes  are  fulfilled,  and  if,  in  carrying  out  his 
plan,  exhaustive  work  is  done  province  by  province,  and  if  the 
surface  research  is  extended  to  all  kinds  of  monuments  from 
prehistorical  to  Christian  and  Mohammedan  antiquities,  and  is 
supplemented  by  exhaustive  excavation  of  important  sites,  the 
gain  to  the  most  varied  branches  of  science  will  be  immense. 


—58— 

All  nations  will  congratulate  America  with  a  full  heart  on  such 
a  feat. 

(Signed)     BRUNO  SAUER, 

A.  SCHONE, 

E.  BICKEL, 

E.  SUDHAUS, 

C.  A.  VOLQUARDSEN, 

F.  JACOB Y, 
GERHARD  FICKER. 


University  of  Freiburg  in  Breisgau. 
(Translation.)  Freiburg  i.  Br.  25  August  1910. 

I  do  not  hesitate  to  characterize  the  project  as  one  of  the 
highest  importance.  Its  realization  will  give  all  archaeologists, 
historians,  and  geographers  in  the  entire  civilized  world  the 
greatest  satisfaction.  .  .  .  With  very  few  exceptions  the 
lack  of  sufficient  means  has  rendered  scientific  research  in  Asia 
Minor  and  Northern  Syria  ineffective  and  unsatisfactory.  .  . 
.  .  The  map  of  the  country  is  in  a  deplorable  condition. 
Whole  regions,  many  square  miles  in  extent,  are  still  as  un- 
known as  the  interior  of  Africa.  And  those  regions  are  not 
primeval  forests  or  deserts,  either,  but  are  found  in  a  country 
of  an  ancient  civilization  that  conceals  a  wealth  of  treasures 
dating  from  antiquity  and  of  monuments  illustrating  its  history, 
and  is  still  densely  populated. 

The  monuments  of  antiquity  in  Asiatic  Turkey  are  disappear- 
ing every  day  more  and  more.  It  is  high  time  that  the  enlight- 
ened nations,  whose  very  civilization  had  its  origin,  in  a  great 
measure,  in  these  countries,  should  unite  in  the  earnest  endeavor 
to  preserve  and  investigate  the  ruins  and  monuments  of  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria. 

(Signed)  DR.  ERNST  FABRICIUS, 

Professor  der  alten  Geschichte  a.d.  Universitat  Freiburg  i. 
Br. ;  Mitglied  der  Centraldirektion  des  Archasologischen  Insti- 
tats ;  Dirigent  der  Reichs-Limeskommission. 


—59— 

University  of  Halle — Wittenberg, 
(Translation.)  Halle  (Saale)  d.  20  Oktober  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  scientific  research  in  Asia  Minor 
is  drawn  on  broad  and  comprehensive  lines.  We  welcome  it 
with  great  joy.  The  personality  of  Professor  Sterrett  gives 
high  guarantee  that  the  undertaking  will  be  conducted  with 
care  and  energy,  and  it  promises  to  advance  very  greatly  the 
most  divergent  branches  of  historical  knowledge,  particularly 
geography,  ethnology,  the  science  of  classical  and  oriental  an- 
tiquity, the  science  of  language,  the  history  of  art,  the  history 
of  the  Church,  etc.  By  granting  the  means  for  the  realization 
of  this  plan,  service  of  exceeding  importance  to  science  will 
have  been  performed. 

(Signed)     C.  ROBERT, 

G.  WISSOWA, 
OTTO  KERN, 
ALFRED  PHILIPPSON, 
A.  GOLDSCHMIDT, 
KARL  PRAECHTER, 
K.  BROCKELMANN. 


University  of  Halle, 
(Translation.)  Halle,  den  7  September  1910. 

The  undertaking  is  important,  it  is  rich  in  promise;  it  is 
urgent;  the  moment  chosen  is  as  favorable  as  possible;  the 
plan  has  been  conceived  with  extraordinary  skill  and  with  ex- 
traordinary special  knowledge;  Dr.  Sterrett,  by  reason  of  his 
learning,  his  powers  of  observation,  and  his  experience,  is  the 
most  suitable  person  conceivable  for  the  task,  the  successful 
accomplishment  of  which  promises  to  bring  new  light  to  science 
and  to  blaze  new  roads. 

And  so  I  can  only  beg  most  earnestly  that  Dr.  Sterrett  be  sup- 
plied with  means  in  abundance  for  the  accomplishment  of  his 
admirable  plan;  for  it  concerns  a  matter  in  which  the  whole 
scientific  world  is  most  keenly  interested. 

(Signed)  CARL  ROBERT. 


—60— 

University  of  Breslau, 
(Translation.)  Breslau,  im  September  1910. 

The  proposed  exploration  of  the  soil  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria 
promises  limitless  gains  for  our  knowledge  of  pre-Christian  and 
early  Christian  civilization.  We  should  like  to  call  attention 
particularly  to  Cilicia  and  Antioch  along  with  Daphne.  We 
give  expression  to  our  firm  conviction  that  a  person  or  an  in- 
stitution could  in  no  way  do  a  greater  service  to  the  scien- 
tific knowledge  of  the  history  of  the  civilization  of  mankind 
than  by  granting  the  means  for  the  execution  of  the  plan  of 
Professor  Sterrett. 

(Signed)     RICHARD  FOERSTER, 

GEORG  KAUFMANN, 

ALFRED  GERCKE, 

FRANZ  SKUTSCH, 

CONRAD  CICHORIUS, 

OTTO  SCHRADER. 

University  of  Heidelberg, 
(Translation.)  Heidelberg,  30  Dezember  1910. 

The  plan  for  an  extensive  work  of  research  in  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria  is  of  the  greatest  importance  for  historical,  archae- 
ological, and  geographical  studies  in  the  widest  sense,  but  more 
particularly  for  the  history  of  Prehellenic  and  Hellenic  culture, 
as  Avell  as  of  Christianity  and  Islam.  The  more  imminent  the 
danger  of  the  utter  annihilation  of  the  treasures  that  lie  both 
above  and  beneath  the  soil  of  Asia  Minor,  the  more  urgent  and 
imperative  becomes  the  duty,  while  yet  there  is  time,  of  saving 
these  invaluable  records  for  the  knowledge  of  the  history  of 
civilization  for  millenniums. 

The  imdersigned  believe  that  a  service  of  the  first  magnitude 
will  be  rendered  to  science  by  carrying  Professor  Sterrett 's 
plan  into  execution. 

Our  colleague,  Professor  Schoell,  who  is  at  present  absent  in 
Italy,  writes  that  he  agrees  most  heartily  with  this  our  endorse- 
ment. 


—61-^ 

(Signed)  F.  BOLL, 

PROF.  DR.  BRANDT, 

WILLE, 

C.  BEZOLD, 

H.  RANKE, 

K.  HAMPE, 

J.  WEISS, 

G.  UHLIG, 

G.  A.  GERHARD, 

DR.  BARTHOLOMAE, 

HETNER, 

H.  VON  SCHUBERT, 

DOMASCZEWSKI, 

BEER. 

University  of  Heidelberg, 
(Translation.)  Heidelberg,  26,  xii,  1910. 

I  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett's  scientific  plans  may  be  pro- 
moted by  everybody  and  be  completely  successful. 
(Signed)     FR.  SCHOELL. 

University  of  Heidelberg. 

I  hear  with  the  greatest  pleasure  that  there  will  be  some  hope 
of  seeing  a  subvention  granted  for  the  furtherance  of  Profes- 
sor Sterrett's  plan  for  a  general  survey  of  the  lesser 
known  parts  of  Asia  Minor  and  other  oriental  countries  im- 
portant for  our  knowledge  of  history  of  mankind  from  the  very 
first  beginning  of  historical  times  till  the  times  of  triumphing 
Christianity. 

I  cannot  but  applaud  as  strongly  as  I  can  the  excellent  plan 
of  my  colleague  of  Cornell  and  express  my  ardent  wish  that  a 
way  may  be  found  for  carrying  into  effect  what  is  certainly  the 
most  heart-felt  desire  of  every  archaeologist.  And  there  can  be 
no  doubt  but  that  Prof.  Sterrett  has  more  claim  than  anybody 
else  to  do  such  a  work. 

(Signed)  FRIEDRICH  VON  DUHN, 

Professor  of  Classical  Archaeology  at  the  University  of  Heidel- 
berg. 


—62— 

University  of  Greifswald, 
(Translation.)  Greifswald,  den  23  December  1910. 

We  welcome  with  the  greatest  joy  Professor  Sterrett's  plan 
for  archaeological  research  in  the  interior  of  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria.  Every  one  who  has  ever  travelled  in  Asia  Minor  knows 
with  what  rapidity  the  very  important  records  of  ancient  civili- 
zations are  being  destroyed  by  the  ignorance  of  the  inhabitants, 
and  what  immeasurable  harm  has  already  been  done  to  science 
because  of  it.  We  regard  it  as  an  imperative  demand  of  science 
that  an  end  be  put  to  this  as  soon  as  possible  and  as  thoroughly 
as  possible.  The  name  of  Sterrett,  high  in  repute  in  the  schol- 
arly world,  gives  us  the  assurance  that  narrow,  special  interests 
will  not  be  given  preference,  but  that,  as  true  historical  sense 
demands,  equal  attention  will  be  paid  to  monuments  of  all 
times  and  all  civilizations. 

(Signed)     DR.  ERICH  PERNICE, 
DR.  ULMANN, 
DR.  BERNHEIM, 
DR.  WALTER  OTTO, 
KARL  HOSIUS, 
H.  SCHONE. 

University  of  Greifswald, 
(Translation.)  Greifswald,  22,  xii,  10. 

Professor  Sterrett's  project  for  research  in  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria  meets  with  my  complete  approval.  For,  who  could  be  so 
blind  as  to  fail  to  see  the  many  immense  benefits  which  the  real- 
ization of  his  plan  would  bring  to  every  branch  of  the  science 
of  the  past,  to  geography,  and  to  the  history  of  religion? 

(Signed)     C.  HOSIUS. 

University  of  Strassburg, 

Strassburg,  den  19  Dez,  1910. 
Explorations  and  excavations  in  Asia  Minor  and    in    Syria 
have  become  one  of  the  most  important  and  most  urgent  tasks 
of  Biblical,  Classical,  and  Oriental  archaeologists.    Everybody 


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familiar  with  the  work  done  in  those  countries  within  the  last 
fifty  years  knows  what  wonderful  results  have  been  obtained 
there,  how  milleniums  of  the  history  of  mankind  have  been 
elucidated:  nations,  languages,  and  civilizations  whose  memory 
had  vanished  entirely  have  come  to  life  again,  and  our  knowl- 
edge has  been  increased  tremendously.  On  the  other  hand, 
there  is  just  at  the  present  great  danger  that  many  invaluable 
records  of  the  past  may  be  destroyed  and  be  forever  lost  to 
science,  since  railways  are  being  traced  all  over  the  Ottoman 
Empire  in  Asia,  and  since  the  building  activity  and  the  cultiva- 
tion of  the  soil  are  growing  rapidly.  Professor  Littmann,  who 
was  a  member  of  two  American  Archaeological  Expeditions  to 
Syria,  witnessed  this  progress  himself:  many  a  fine  building, 
many  an  important  inscription  which  he  had  seen  intact  in 
1899  he  saw  destroyed  in  1904:  the  ruins  had  been  preyed  upon 
by  the  natives  and  by  railway-builders  and  been  used  as  quar- 
ries.— 

We,  therefore,  are  thoroughly  in  sympathy  with   Mr.  Ster- 
rett's  plans  and  recommend  most  strongly  that  he  be  supported 
as  effectively  and  as  quickly  as  possible. 
(Signed)     B.  KEIL, 

R.  LAQUEUR, 
W.  SPIEGELBERG, 
R.  REITZENSTEIN, 
E.  LITTMANN. 


University  of  Giessen, 
(Translation.)  Giessen,  den  16  Dezember  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  grand  outline  of  a  plan  for  the  explora- 
tion of  ancient  sites  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  can  be  sure  of 
universal  endorsement,  and  it  deserves  to  be  promoted  and  sup- 
ported by  all  who  can  do  so.  Such  an  enterprise  endowed  with 
sufficient  means  and  carried  through  systematically  gives  prom- 
ise of  the  richest  results  in  all  branches  of  the  science  of  the 
past  as  well  as  for  prehistoric  times,  for  the  middle  ages,  and 
for  modem  times.    We  hope  that  it  may  be  made  possible  for 


—64— 

our  American  colleague  to  carry  his  plan  into  execution.  That 
would  mark  the  inauguration  of  one  of  the  most  urgent  and 
paying  tasks  that  confronts  science. 

(Signed)     CARL  WATZINGER, 

MAX  L.  STRACK, 

W.  SIEVERS, 

FRIEDR.  SCHWALLY, 

ALFRED  KORTE, 

J.  HALLER, 

G.  ROLOFF, 

OTTO  IMMISCH, 

HERMANN  GUNKEL. 


University  of  Marburg, 
(Translation.)  Marburg,  25  Dec.  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett  open?  up  the  broad  perspective  of  far- 
reaching  archaeological  undertakings  that  in  point  of  fact 
should  not  be  postponed  longer.  Aside  from  the  publications  in 
regard  to  explorations  already  made  in  Asia  Minor,  a  visit  I 
made  to  the  scenes  of  excavations,  such  as  Troy,  Ephesus,  Mag- 
nesia, showed  me  clearly  what  a  wealth  of  monuments  in  Ana- 
tolia are  still  to  be  raised.  I  applaud  Professor  Sterrett 's  idea 
of  arousing  interest  in  archaeological  and  historical  research. 
His  success  would  advance  science,  whose  progress  is  desired 
by  all  civilized  nations  as  a  unit. 

(Signed)     LUDWIG  V.  SYBEL. 

University  of  Tiibingen, 
(Translation.)  Tiibingen,  24  Dez.  1910. 

We  have  read  with  the  greatest  pleasure  Professor  Sterrett 's 
many-sided  outline  of  a  plan  for  the  comprehensive  investiga- 
tion of  the  past  of  Asia  Minor.  The  expeditions  that  have 
hitherto  been  made  into  the  interior  of  Asia  Minor  show  how 
much  there  was  and  is  still  to  be  learnt  by  the  study  and  de- 
scription merely  of  what  is  above  ground,  and  therefore  we 
greet  with  undisguised  pleasure  the  hope  that  it  may  be  made 


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possible  for  him  to  organize  the  study  of  Asia  Minor  and  its 
monuments  on  a  broad  basis,  and  in  particular  by  means  of  ex- 
cavations of  every  kind  to  make  the  soil  become  vocal  in  the 
widest  sense. 

On  every  side  the  scholars  of  to-day  are  demanding  that  light 
be  thrown  upon  the  scenes  of  the  early  archaic  culture  of 
Aeolia  and  Ionia.  The  question  of  the  end  of  the  art  of  Myce- 
nae and  Crete,  of  its  transformation  and  expansion  in  post- 
mycenaean  times;  the  question  of  its  relation  to  Homer;  the 
certain  segregation  and  sortition  of  the  varied  oriental  deposits 
in  the  archaic  art  of  the  Grecian  Orient ;  the  proto-ionic  archi- 
tecture and  the  beginning  of  sculpture;  the  hotly  contested 
problem  of  the  history  of  Hellenistic-Roman  art,  whether  the 
impulse  came  from  the  Orient  or  from  Rome, — all  these  prob- 
lems and  many  more  besides  await  their  solution  from  the  soil 
of  Asia  Minor.  There  is  hardly  a  period  from  the  beginning  of 
historical  life  in  Greece  down  to  the  end  of  antiquity  that  does 
not  stand  in  need  of  illumination  from  Asia  Minor. 
(Signed)     F.  NOACK, 

W.  SCHMID, 

G.  GUNDERMANN, 

E.  KORNEMANN, 

W.  GOETZ, 

H.  GUNTER. 


University  of  Bonn, 
(Translation.)  Bonn,  27,  12,  10. 

Professor  Sterrett's  plan  to  organize  a  systematic  exploration 
of  Asia  Minor,  a  study  of  its  geography,  and  an  excavation  of 
its  ruined  sites,  seems  to  me  to  be  both  important  and  promis- 
ing. From  the  times  of  the  kingdoms  of  Asia  Minor  of  the 
third  and  second  milleniums  before  Christ,  and  more  especially 
from  the  times  of  the  Hittites  on  down  through  the  times  of 
Greek,  Roman,  Christian  culture  until  the  period  of  the 
Islamitic  peoples,  the  importance  of  Asia  Minor  for  Universal 
History  was  immensely  tremendous  and  decisive.     But  at  the 


—66— 

present  moment  we  can  only  form  conjectures  as  to  its  decisive 
importance,  because  the  western  seaboard  alone  has  been  ex- 
amined carefully,  while  the  interior  and  the  southern  seaboard 
still  await  exploration.  According  to  all  accounts  great  ruins 
are  found  everywhere  above  ground.  To  use  the  spade  system- 
atically on  all  these  sites  is  a  task  as  attractive  as  it  is  urgent. 
Even  for  the  history  of  Assyria  and  Babylonia,  to  which  in  the 
first  instance  my  own  studies  are  directed,  paying  results  are  to 
be  expected  along  special  lines. 

Scholars  would  be  filled  with  the  greatest  satisfaction  and 
with  the  most  lively  gratitude,  if,  in  the  interest  of  science  in 
general,  the  means  could  be  found  wherewith  to  inaugurate  this 
splendid  enterprise,  which  should  be  very  comprehensive  and 
systematic,  if  positive  results  are  to  be  attained. 

(Signed)     PROF.  DR.  A.  WIEDEMANN. 


University  of  Wiirzburg, 

(Translation.)  Wiirzburg,  den  23  Dezember  1910. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  go  into  details  concerning  the  im- 
portance of  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  research  in  this  home 
of  ancient  civilizations  for  Art,  History,  Ethnology,  Geography, 
Geology,  etc.,  and  in  short  for  the  knowledge  of  the  develop- 
ment of  mankind  in  general.  It  is  indeed  a  task  "worthy  of 
the  sweat  of  the  noble."  For  that  reason  I  have  directed  my 
attention  in  the  first  instance  to  the  details  of  Professor  Ster- 
rett  's  plan,  and  I  find  in  it  an  idea  that  seems  to  me  to  be  epoch- 
making,  to  wit,  the  idea  that  the  Director  and  his  chief  asso- 
ciates are  to  regard  this  work  as  one  to  be  long  continued,  aye, 
even  as  a  life-work,  without  being  compelled  to  think  of  the 
question  of  support  later  on.  By  that  means  something  extra- 
ordinary could  be  accomplished.  In  the  case  of  many  excava- 
tions the  working-up  of  the  finds  for  publication  and  their 
publication  is  delayed  beyond  measure  or  is  done  in  an  unsatis- 
factory manner,  because  the  experts  who  took  part  in  the  work 


—67— 

were  compelled  to  accept  some  position  or  other  which  left 
them  no  time  for  any  other  work.  It  would  be  an  entirely  new 
species  of  scientific  undertaking,  if  men  of  great  wealth  would 
bring  Professor  Sterrett's  idea  to  realization.  In  Europe  we 
have  long  been  entertaining  the  desire  for  the  creation  of 
research-positions  for  scholars,  so  that  the  incumbents  might 
live  wholly  for  science  without  being  compelled  to  teach  or 
without  having  any  duties  other  than  their  work  of  research. 
On  the  occasion  of  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  University 
of  Berlin  our  Emperor  announced  the  establishment  of  such 
centers  of  research  for  the  natural  sciences.  But  we  shall 
probably  have  to  wait  a  long  time  for  the  creation  of  a  similar 
institution  for  the  historical  sciences.  May  America  take  the 
lead  in  setting  the  world  a  good  example. 

(Signed)     DR.  HEINRICH  BULLE,  Archaeology, 

The  undersigned  concur  with  the  Professor  of  Archaeology  in 
the  University  of  Wiirzburg  in  his  conviction  of  the  extraordi- 
nary importance  of  the  project  of  Mr.  Sterrett,  and  would  re- 
gard its  realization  as  a  magnificent  furtherance  of  science. 

(Signed)     M.  VON  SCHANZ, 
J.  JOLLY, 
G.  KRAUS, 
FR.  REGEL, 
J.  KAERST, 
TH.  BOVERI, 
J.  BECKENKAMP, 
OTTO  STAHLIN, 
THOMAS  STANGL. 

The  investigations  will  be  of  immense  value  for  the  history  of 
art  in  the  middle  ages,  and  particularly  for  the  history  of 
Romanesque  and  Gothic  architecture. 

F.  KNAPP. 


—68— 

University  of  Rostock, 
(Translation.)  Rostock,  den  3  Marz  1911. 

The  representatives  of  the  science  of  the  past  in  the  Uni- 
versity welcome  Avith  lively  satisfaction  the  work  planned  by 
Professor  Sterrett, — a  work  in  which  they  are  keenly  interested 
and  which  will  bring  rich  gains  to  science. 

(Signed)  PROFESSOR  DR.  T.  GEFFCKEN, 
PROFESSOR  DR.  R.  HELM, 
PROFESSOR  DR.  W.  KOLBE, 
PROFESSOR  DR.  A.  von  SALTS. 

Endorsement  of  Austro-Hungarian  Universities. 

University  of  Vienna. 

The  claims  which  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  have  upon  the  quick 
and  thorough  action  of  the  explorer  are  peculiarly  strong  and 
urgent.  Not  only  were  those  countries  through  many  centuries 
the  seat  of  a  high  and  original  civilization ;  the  remains  of  that 
civilization  are  grievously  endangered  and  stand  in  need  of  a 
prompt  and  extensive  action  of  salvation.  Much  has  been  lost 
already,  and  by  far  more  is  almost  sure  to  be  lost  in  the  course 
of  the  next  few  years.  The  construction  of  railways  and  the  in- 
crease of  wealth  generally  are  at  the  same  time  the  greatest 
blessing  to  the  present  and  future  inhabitants  and  the  most 
serious  peril  to  the  legacy  of  the  past.  Myriads  of  stones  cov- 
ered with  inscriptions  and  with  artistic  chisel  work  are  wander- 
ing and  are  going  to  wander  to  the  lime-kiln.  Treasures  which 
to-day  and  tomorrow  may  yet  be  harbored  and  secured,  will  be 
irretrievably  lost  in  the  course  of  the  next  few  years. 

Let  me  in  concluding  express  a  hope  that  the  work  Avill  in 
the  end  concur  harmoniously  with  an  undertaking  begun  long 
ago  by  the  Imperial  Academy  of  Vienna,  disposing  of  much 
more  modest  means.  Our  goal  is  the  construction  of  a  Corpus 
Inscriptionum  Asiae  Minoris,  the  final  embodying  of  the  results 
of  epigraphic  research  carried  on  in  these  countries  in  one  vast 
collection.  One  volume  only  containing  the  inscriptions  of 
Syria  composed  in  the  vernacular  idiom  of  that  province  has 


—69— 

been  hitherto  published.  But  much  has  been  done  in  the  way  of 
collecting  the  literary  materials  as  well  as  in  original  research, 
chiefly  in  the  southern  provinces  Caria,  Syria,  Pisidia,  to  pave 
the  way  for  the  prosecution  of  an  enterprise  which  has  been  ini- 
tiated by  our  lamented  colleague  Otto  Benndorf  and  which  has 
been  fostered  by  the  munificence  of  an  Austrian  nobleman,  the 
Prince  Johannes  von  Liechtenstein. 

(Signed)  THEODORE  GOMPERZ. 

(Translation.)  University  of  Vienna. 

If  the  gentlemen  connected  with  American  munificence 
are  inclined  to  listen  to  the  words  of  a  foreigner,  I  cannot  hesi- 
tate to  speak  in  favor  of  the  project  with  all  my  energies.  I  am 
convinced  that  a  thorough  exploration  of  these  regions  would 
break  the  venerable,  but  mischievously  idealistic  spell  of  Hellas 
and  Rome  and  lead  to  the  recognition  of  truths  that  will  shake 
to  their  foundation  our  notions  of  the  development  of  civiliza- 
tion. 

In  Europe  it  is  not  possible  to  secure  the  means  wherewith  to 
carry  into  effect  such  a  tremendous  enterprise,  because  it  does 
not  run  in  the  ruts  of  classical  education.  America  will  intro- 
duce a  new  epoch  in  science,  if  it  will  boldly  pave  the  way  for 
the  realization  of  Professor  Sterrett's  project. 

(Signed)  JOS.  STRZYGOWSKI. 

Prof.  a.d.  Universitat  Wien.  Verfasser  von  ''Orient  oder 
Rom"  und  ''Kleinasien  ein  Neuland." 


University  of  Innsbruck, 
(Translation.)  Innsbruck,  27  Oktober  1910. 

The  combination  of  intensive  and  extensive  research  by 
means  of  excavations  and  travel  is  a  happy  thought ;  the  exca- 
vations would  be  natural  points  of  departure  and  centers  for 
excursions,  and  the  results  of  both  would  supplement  each 
other.  But  the  factors  of  chief  moment  are  that  the  work  be 
organized  systematically  and  for  a  long  period  of  time,  and 
that  its  direction  be  committed  to  an  experienced  man  and  one 


—70— 

acquainted  with  the  country.  Only  in  that  way  will  it  be  pos- 
sible to  carry  on  thorough  and  rapid  work.  And  haste  is  an 
urgent  necessity,  more  particularly  for  the  objects  of  all  kinds 
that  are  above  the  earth.  My  own  experience  in  travel  (Heber- 
dey's)  covering  many  years  in  the  interest  of  the  Tituli  Asiae 
Minoris  of  our  Vienna  Academy  has  proved  only  too  often  to 
me  and  to  my  companions  in  the  field  how  frequently  and  how 
rapidly  small  objects,  aye,  and  large  ones,  too,  fall  a  sacrifice 
to  the  ignorance  and  the  fanaticism  of  the  natives.  How  much 
of  which  science  has  no  know^ledge  disappears  every  year  can 
hardly  be  overestimated.  A  tremendous  amount  may  still  be 
saved  by  quick  action — a  rich  harvest  waits  only  for  the  reaper. 
If  an  endowed  foundation  will  carry  Professor  Sterrett's  plan 
into  execution,  it  will  place  itself  in  the  service  of  an  under- 
taking, which,  the  longer  it  is  deferred,  becomes  all  the  more 
insistently  a  scientific  duty  of  our  century.  An  enlightened 
institution  would  thereby  render  an  everlasting  service  and 
one  that  would  bless  generations  yet  unborn. 
(Signed)  R.  HEBERDEY, 
E.  KALINKA, 
R.  von  SCALA, 
THOMAS  FRIEDRICH. 


University  of  Cracow, 

Cracow,  28  October  1910. 
All  classical  scholars  are  agreed  that  a  thorough  investigation 
of  the  antiquities  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  a  most  urgent  and 
important  task.  Hitherto  systematic  research  has  been  concen- 
trated upon  Western  Asia  Minor,  but  Paphlagonia,  Phrygia, 
Lycia,  Cilicia,  and  Cappadocia  contain  many  relics,  as  yet  not 
satisfactorily  described,  of  a  primitive,  autochthonous  culture, 
which,  in  its  day,  must  have  exercised  some  influence  on  Hel- 
lenic art  and  civilisation.  Hitherto,  interest  has  been  directed 
mainly  to  the  spread  of  Hellenism  among  the  barbarians ;  exca- 
vation and  research  in  Asia  Minor  may  serve  to  illustrate  the 
opposite  development,  for  it  may  show  how  far  the  Greeks  were 


—71— 

indebted  to  the  barbarians  of  those  countries.  This  indebted- 
ness is  no  longer  mere  theory:  the  Carian  element  in  Cos  and 
Crete  is  now  an  acknowledged  fact ;  the  racial  origin  of  Minoan 
culture  is  to  be  looked  for  in  Asia  Minor.  Austrian  scholars 
have  recently  discovered  Lydian  inscriptions,  some  of  whose 
characteristic  letters  have  their  parallels  only  in  Etruscan  and 
Umbro-Samnite  writing.  The  finding  of  other  Lydian  inscrip- 
tions will  probably  solve  the  Etruscan  mystery  and  prove  that 
Herodotus  was  correct  in  assigning  Lydian  descent  to  the 
Tyrrhenians.  Similar  attention  should  be  paid  to  Armenia, 
with  its  antique  ' '  Urartic ' '  inscriptions  and  monuments,  as  well 
as  to  Syria,  where,  not  long  ago,  the  earliest  dated  traces  of 
Indo-Europeans  have  been  discovered,  carrying  us  back  to  a 
period  about  1500  years  B.  C.  Finally,  the  powerful  organisa- 
tion and  culture  of  the  Hittites  requires  a  thorough  elucidation 
in  regard  to  their  ethnographical  origin  and  their  relations  to 
their  neighbors,  both  Aryan  and  Semitic. 

Research  in  Asia  Minor  will  throw  light,  not  merely  on  the 
remote  ages  of  history,  but  upon  later  periods  as  well.  The  in- 
scriptions found  on  the  western  coasts  of  the  peninsula  have 
informed  us  in  regard  to  such  matters  as  the  attitude  of  certain 
Asiatic  towns  during  the  war  between  the  Seleucid  and 
Ptolemaic  kingdoms;  school  customs  in  old  Miletus;  a  famous 
corporation  of  actors  in  the  town  of  Teos;  a  proconsulate  of 
Tacitus,  otherwise  unattested,  at  Mylasa,  in  Caria.  Further 
investigation  would  no  doubt  produce  entire  clearness  on 
such  subjects  of  general  interest  as  the  organisation  of  the 
Seleucid  state,  the  social  development  of  town  communities  in 
Asia  Minor,  and  their  absorption,  first  by  the  Greek,  and  then 
by  the  Roman,  civilisation. 

Asia  Minor  was  the  home  of  an  early  Christian  literature : 
witness  Basil,  the  Gregories,  Chrysostom.  Syriac  and  Armenian 
literature  have  helped  to  perpetuate  their  writings,  some  of 
their  works  being  preserved  in  translations  into  these  lan- 
guages only.  There  is  every  reason  to  expect  new  light  on  the 
development  of  Christian  thought  in  the  early  middle  ages 
from  diligent  research  in  Asia  Minor.    Still  greater  will  be  its 


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importance  for  deepening  our  insight  into  the  development  of 
early  Christian  and  Byzantine  art.  The  studies  of  Melchior  de 
Vogiie  and  J.  Strzygowski  have  proved  that  the  treasures  of 
the  basilicas  can  be  saved  from  utter  destruction  only  by  im- 
mediate action  and  by  publication  at  an  early  moment;  the 
magnificence  of  these  basilicas  may  be  inferred  from  Count 
Lanckoronski  's  vv^ork  on  the  towns  of  Pamphylia  and  Pisidia. 

The  accomplishment  of  all  these  tasks  will  only  be  possible 
w^ith  the  aid  of  ample  financial  means,  sufficient  for  many  years' 
patient  labour  at  excavations  in  Asia  Minor.  Professor  Ster- 
rett's  programme  is  excellent;  it  takes  all  difficulties  into 
account;  it  embraces  all  epochs  and  countries;  it  is  thoroughly, 
scientific  and  practical;  it  is  worthy  of  being  realised  by  the 
help  of  an  institution  or  rich  man;  no  American  is  better 
qualified  than  Professor  Sterrett  to  carry  the  programme  into 
execution,  as  the  work  already  done  by  him  in  Asia  sufficiently 
testifies.  Therefore,  we.  Professors  in  the  Faculty  of  Letters  of 
Cracow  University,  express  our  most  emphatic  approval  of 
Professor  Sterrett 's  plan. 

(Signed)     ADAM  MIODONSKI, 

JAN  ROZWADOWSKI, 
LEON  STERNBACH, 
PIOTR  BIENKO WSKI, 
KAZIMIERZ  MORAAVSKI, 
GEORGE  MYCIELSKI. 

University  of  Czernowitz, 
(Translation.)  Czernowitz,  23  Oktober  1910. 

Those  who  have  conducted  research  in  countries  that  were 
the  home  of  an  ancient  civilization  know  that  journeys  in  the 
interest  of  science  are  unsatisfactory;  for  route  surveys,  even 
when  made  with  great  care  by  persons  who  are  not  experts,  are 
only  makeshifts,  and  for  a  similar  reason  the  treasures  of 
natural  science  that  lie  along  his  road  must  be  left  unutilized  by 
the  traveler  who  is  not  a  natural  scientist;  so  too  the  archae- 
ologist, who  has  studied  on  a  given  site  the  monuments  that  are 
above  ground,  must  almost  always  leave  the  site  with  the  dis- 


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heartening  knowledge  that  even  a  little  superficial  digging 
would  have  increased  the  scientific  value  of  his  work  many 
times.  All  these  evils  would  be  remedied  by  an  expedition  pro- 
vided with  ample  means  and  the  necessary  staff  of  experts  and 
planned  to  be  continued  for  decades  to  come.  With  Professor 
Sterrett  at  its  head  such  an  expedition  would  be  sure  of  suc- 
cess. On  repeated  journeys  he  has  acquired  the  indispensable 
expert  knowledge  and  has  won  for  himself  a  place  of  honor 
among  the  explorers  of  the  Orient  by  his  archaeological  and 
geographical  work,  whose  accuracy  could  be  admired  and  veri- 
fied, for  instance,  by  the  Prague  Expedition  of  1902.  The  un- 
dertaking, in  view  of  its  importance,  would  arouse  the  interest 
of  the  whole  enlightened  world,  and  scholars,  particularly  in 
Austria,  whose  Imperial  Academy  and  Archaeological  Institute 
have  for  years  been  interested  in  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor, 
will  be  glad  to  welcome  colaborers  in  this  wide  and  still  far 
from  exhausted  region. 

(Signed)     JUL.  JuTHNER, 

WALDIMIR  MILKOWICZ, 
JOH.  KROMAYER, 
ISIDOR  HILBERG. 

(Translation.)  University  of  Prague, 

Deutsche  Universitat,  Prag,  den  30  November,  1910. 
The  undersigned  representatives  of  the  science  of  the  past  in 
the  German  University  of  Prague  express  their  conviction  that 
the  plan  proposed  by  Professor  Sterrett  for  a  comprehensive 
scientific  exploration  of  Asia  Elinor  deserves  the  warmest  ap- 
proval and  support  from  every  quarter.  The  exhaustive  explora- 
tion of  Asia  Minor  is  perhaps  the  most  important  task  demanded 
of  practical  archaeology  and  it  will  give  rich  and  undreamed  of 
results,  which  will  advance  in  an  equal  degree  other  sciences, 
orientalistics  and  geography.  But  only  a  systematical  and  com- 
prehensive enterprise,  superseding  the  dissipated  and  often  com- 
peting expeditions,  that  have  been  the  rule  hitherto,  can  bring 
about  any  great  degree  of  success.  The  sooner  the  undertaking 
planned  is  realized  the  better  it  will  be  for  science,  for  the  de- 


struction  of  the  still  existing  antiquities  by  external  agencies  and 
by  the  hand  of  man  progresses  with  the  greatest  rapidity, — every 
year  of  delay  can  bring  about  losses  that  can  never  be  made  good. 
To  prove  the  importance  of  excavations  precisely  in  Asia  Elinor, 
we  need  only  point  to  the  great  discoveries  in  Boghaz-Kieui,  leav- 
ing entirely  out  of  consideration  the  discoveries  on  the  westera 
seaboard  of  the  peninsula,  at  Pergamon,  Ephesus,  Miletus,  and 
Priene.     That  Professor  Sterrett  is  thie  proper  man  to  inaugur- 
ate and  to  conduct  the  enterprise  is  known  to  every  one  who 
is  familiar  with  his  works,  but  his  fitness  can  be  appreciated 
best  by  the  man  who  has  had  the  opportunity — and  one  of  the 
signers  of  this  document  has  had  the  opportunity — of  following 
in  the  footsteps  and  of  verifying  the  work  of  Professor  Sterrett 
in  Asia  Minor;    his  comprehensive  keensightedness,  and    his 
energy  will  guarantee  the  success  of  any  expedition. 
(Signed)     WILHELM  KLEIN, 
ALOIS  RZACH, 
CARL  VON  HOLZINGER, 
HEINRICH  SWOBODA, 
OTTO  PLASBERG. 

Bohemian  University  of  Prague, 
C.  K.  Archeologicky  Ustav  Ceske  University, 

Prague,  November  29,  1910. 
The  undersigned  Professors  in  the  Bohemian  University  of 
Prague  welcome  Professor   Sterrett 's  splendid  project.     The 
importance  of  Asia  Minor  for  the  knowledge  of  the  languages 
and  the  civilizations  of  antiquity  has  already  been  pointed  out 
by  so  many  prominent  archaeologists  and  ethnographers  that 
it  is  unnecessary  for  us  to  restate  it.    At  the  present  time  the 
question  of  the  origin  of  Byzantine  culture  is  a  problem  of  no 
less  importance,  and  it  has  its  centre  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria. 
(Signed)     DR.  LUBOR  NIEDERLE, 
DR.  JOSEF  KRAL, 
DR.  FRANTISEK  GROH, 
DR.  IG.  VYSOKY, 
DR.  ROB.  NOVAK. 


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Hungarian  University  of  Budapest, 

Budapest,  30  Nov.  1910. 

It  will  be  the  glory  of  America,  if  research  in  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria  is  organized,  in  those  parts  of  the  old  world,  where 
treasures  of  the  Hittite,  Greek,  Roman,  and  Christian  civiliza- 
tions lie  hidden  beneath  the  soil, — treasures  that  bewitch  the 
souls  of  archaeologists  and  at  the  same  time  fill  them  with  an- 
guish, because  of  the  knowledge  that  scores  of  monuments, 
which  generous  protectors  might  save,  are  being  destroyed 
every  day. 

The  men  who  make  this  research  possible  would  merit  the 
gratitude  of  the  scientific  world,  if  they  would  endow  with  an 
adequate  subvention  the  plan  proposed  by  Professor  Sterrett, 
who  is  one  of  the  ablest  leaders  of  expeditions  of  exploration. 
His  ''Outline"  is  a  well  considered  proposal,  and  we  are  sure 
that  he  is  the  best  man  to  execute  it.  His  statement  is  no  fic- 
titious picture,  but  a  valuable  Vademecum  for  archaeological 
researches  as  they  are  conducted  in  modern  times  by  our  most 
learned  men.  We  fully  agree  with  Professor  Sterrett 's  ''pro- 
memoria, "  and  we  beg  that  he  be  accorded  any  sum  he  wants 
for  his  undertaking. 

The  enterprise  will  be  thoroughly  American  because  the  idea 
is  Yours,  and  even  the  expense  will  be  Yours,  but  the  results 
will  be  essentially  an  international  treasure  that  will  be  valued 
by  the  whole  civilized  world,  because  the  great  task  to  be  per- 
formed is  of  international  importance. 

Hungary  is  not  rich  enough  to  imitate  and  carry  through 
researches  of  such  dimensions,  but  great  would  be  our  joy,  if 
You,  the  ''New  World,"  with  Your  immense  means  would  do 
that  which  overpasses  the  material  ability  of  the  countries  of 
the  "Old  World." 

And  will  it  not  be  a  glorious  thing  to  bring  once  more  to  the 
light  of  day  civilizations  that  have  been  buried  for  many,  many 
centuries,  by  permitting  Sterrett  to  carry  out  his  work?  We 
are  sure  that  it  will  increase  immensely  our  knowledge  of  an- 
cient times.     It  will  add  greatly  to  the  fame  of  Your  nation, 


—76-^ 

and  the  promoters  of  the  work  of  research  will  earn  the  warm- 
est thanks  of  Old  Europe. 

( Signed )     ARMINIUS  V AMBER Y, 

DR.  JULIUS  PASTEINER, 

DR.  STEPH.  HEGEDtJS, 

DR.  VALENTINUS  KUZSINSKY, 

IGN.  GOLDZIHER,  Ph.  D.,  D.  Litt.,  L.L.  D., 

ED.  MAHLER,  Ph.  D., 

DR.  EMIL  THEWREWK  de  PONOR, 

DR.  WILLIAM  PECZ, 

DR.  JOSEPH  HAMPEL. 


University  of  Kolozsvar, 
Kolozsvar,  Hungary,  Nov.  30,  1910. 

The  work  to  which  Professor  Sterrett's  program  directs  at- 
tention, if  realized,  will  add  to  the  three  different  branches  of 
science  in  an  unexpected  measure.  Indeed,  Asia  Minor,  the 
field  of  the  proposed  researches,  was  always  subjected  to  the 
differing  effects  of  various  civilizations.  In  Asia  Minor  the 
culture  of  the  South  became  mixed  with  elements  not  only  from 
the  East  and  West,  but  from  the  North  as  well. 

The  problems  that  confront  us  in  Asia  Minor  are  difficult  and 
complicated,  and  humanity  at  large  is  interested  in  their  solu- 
tion. 

(Signed)     DR.  B.  POSTAH, 

DR.  G.  NEMETHY, 
DR.  J.  CSENGERI, 
DR.  L.  SCHILLING, 
DR.  S.  MARKY. 


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Endorsement  of  Swiss  Universities. 

University  of  Zurich. 

(Translation.)  Zurich,   den  18  Oktober,  1910. 

The  exceedingly  important  results  obtained  by  the  excava- 
tions carried  on  during  the  last  decades  in  Pergamon,  Miletus, 
Magnesia  on  the  Maeander,  Ephesus,  Priene,  etc.,  encourage  us 
to  continue  energetically  along  this  path,  and  it  would  be  cause 
for  great  rejoicing,  if  in  some  way  it  could  be  made  possible  to 
continue  the  work  on  a  large  scale  and  at  several  points  in  Asia 
Minor.  History,  geography,  and  topography,  the  history  of  art 
and  of  civilization,  in  fact  all  branches  of  the  science  of  the  past 
will  be  greatly  advanced  thereby. 

(Signed)     DR.  GUSTAV  BILLETER, 
PROF.  DR.  H.  BLtJMNER, 
PROF.  DR.  C.  BRUN, 
PROF.  DR.  H.  HITZIG, 
PROF.  DR.  A.  KAEGI, 
PROF.  DR.  G.  MEYER  YON  KRONAU, 
PROF.  DR.  J.  R.  RAHN, 
PROF.  DR.  E.  SCHWYZER, 
DR.  OTTO  WASER. 

University  of  Lausanne, 

(Translation.)  Lausanne,  le  11  Novembre  1910. 

The  undersigned.  Professors  in  the  University  of  Lausanne, 
approve  warmly  of  Professor  Sterrett  's  plan  for  researches  and 
excavations  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  undertakings  most  useful 
for  the  progress  of  archaeology  in  a  field  still  too  little  explored. 

(Signed)     H.  MEYLAN-FAURE, 
A.  de  MOLIN, 
P.  VALETTE, 
E.  ROSSIER. 


—78— 

University  of  Freiburg  (Switzerland), 

November  23,  1910. 
We  should  like  to  add  our  testimony  to  the  great  importance 
of  Professor  Sterrett's  project.  The  plan  is  indeed  one  of 
world-wide  scientific  interest  and  we  earnestly  hope  that  the 
means  for  realizing  it  may  be  granted.  We  are  convinced  that 
an  individual  or  a  body,  in  supplying  the  means,  would  do 
a  lasting  service  to  scientific  research  and  deserve  the  gratitude 
of  all  scholars. 

(Signed)     DR.  A.  PICCARDT, 
DR.  FR.  STEFFENS, 
DR.  J.  P.  KIRSCH, 
DR.  G.  SCHNtiRER, 
MAX,  PRINCE  OF  SAXONY, 
V.  ZAPLETAL, 
PROF.  P.  MANDONNET, 
J.  ZEILLER. 

University  of  Neuchatel, 
(Translation.)  Neuchatel,  le  19  Octobre  1910. 

An  expedition  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  cannot  but  be  fruitful 
and  of  the  very  highest  importance  for  ancient  history  in 
general  and  for  archaeology  in  particular. 

(Signed)  DR.  PAUL  DESSOULAVY, 
DR.  J.  LE  COULTRE. 
For  my  part,  I  should  be  very  glad,  if  the  proposed  expedi- 
tion could  succeed  in  discovering  a  solution  for  some  of  the  his- 
torical and  archaeological  problems  which  the  Hittite  antiqui- 
ties already  known  and  studied  have  propounded  to  contem- 
porary science. 

(Signed)     L.  CART. 

University  of  Berne, 
(Translation.)  Bern,  27  Oktober  1910. 

We  see  with  gladness  that  so  experienced  and  enthusiastic  an 
explorer  as  Professor  Sterrett  has  developed  a  plan  of  explora- 
tion at  once  broad  and  practical.      We  venture  to  hope  that  the 


—79— 

trustees  of  some  endowed  institution  may  not  allow  to  escape 
them  the  wholly  unique  and  favorable  opportunity  of  placing  at 
the  disposal  of  so  distinguished  an  explorer  the  necessary  money 
in  the  richest  measure  possible.  Thereby  they  will  not  merely 
glorify  the  name  of  the  New  World  in  the  field  of  science,  but  by 
the  promotion  of  so  exceedingly  important  an  undertaking  they 
will  win  the  thanks  of  all  enlightened  nations,  great  and  small. 
(Signed)     OTTO  SCHULTHESS, 

KARL  MARTI, 

FRIEDR.  HAAG. 

Winterthur,  Switzerland, 
(Translation.)  15  Oktober  1910. 

The  importance  of  excavations  for  numerous  branches  of 
science  will  be  all  the  greater,  if  they  are  made  quickly,  and  if 
they  are  extensive  and  exhaustive.  For  experience  teaches  that 
in  view  of  the  increasing  destruction  of  ancient  buildings,  in- 
scriptions, and  monuments,  delay  brings  irreparable  loss. 
(Signed)  F.  IMHOOF-BLUMER, 
»  Hon.  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Numismatic  Society,  and  of  the  So- 
ciety for  the  Promotion  of  Hellenic  Studies;  member  of  the 
Royal  Prussian  Academy  of  Sciences,  etc.,  etc. 

University  of  Geneva, 
(Translation.)  Geneve,  le  26  Oct.  1910. 

We  recommend  most  warmly  Professor  Sterrett's  project  for 
research  in  Asia  Minor.     Mr.  Sterrett  and  Sir  W.  M.  Ramsay 
are  professional  archaeologists  whose  work  has  justly  attracted 
attention.    The  plan  of  studying  exhaustively  a  given  province 
of  Central  or  Southern  Asia  Minor  deserves  the  most  hearty 
support,  for  important  discoveries  may  confidently  be  expected. 
(Signed)     JULES  NICOLE, 
CHARLES  SEITZ, 
H.  EDOUARD  NAVILLE, 
F.  DE  SAUSSURE, 
PAUL  OLTRAMARE. 


—80— 

Endorsement  of  Dutch  Universities. 

University  of  Leyden. 
Rijks  Museum  van  Oudheden  te  Leiden. 
De  Directie  van  het  Museum. 
Leiden,  October  14,  1910. 
We  have  noted  with  the  greatest  interest  the  plan  of  Profes- 
sor J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for  archasological  research  and  excavations 
in  Asia  Minor  and  parts  of  Syria.     Our  limited  knowledge  of 
the  civilization  of  Asia  Minor  is  one  of  the  chief  reasons  that 
we  are  so  much  in  the  dark  about  many  things  concerning  the 
earliest  development  of  the  classical  civilizations.    At  the  same 
time  the  importance  of  Asia  Minor  for  the  civilization  of  the 
whole  East  can  hardly  be  overvakied.     Our  knowledge  of  the 
ancient  world  will  be  largely  increased  by  Professor  Sterrett 's 
researches  as  to  what  Asia  Minor  was  before   the    Byzantine 
times  and  the  later  middle  ages.     This    undertaking   will    no 
doubt  be  of  the  greatest  value  for  science  and  an  ever-lasting 
honour  to  the  country  that  undertakes  it. 

(Signed)     A.  E.  J.  HOLWERDA, 

J.  J.  HARTMAN,  • 

J.  VAN  LEEUWEN,  JR., 

C.  SNOUCK  HURGRONJE, 
TH.  BUSSEMAKER, 

G.  WILDEBOER, 

D.  C.  HESSELING, 
DR.  P.  A.  A.  BOESER, 

University  of  Groningen. 
(Translation.)  Groningen,  11  October,  1910. 

Your  plan  to  investigate  systematically  with  a  well-equipped 
expedition  parts  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  will  be  hailed  with 
joy  by  all  archaeologists.  Although  the  soil  of  Greece  itself  is 
as  yet  very  far  from  being  exhausted,  still  Asia  Minor  especially 
is  undoubtedly  to  be  regarded  at  present  as  a  field  well  suited 
for  scientific  investigation.  In  the  way  proposed  by  you  you 
should  be  able  to  accomplish  much  for  science  and  for  the  glory 


—81— 

of  your  country,  if,  in  addition  to  the  knowledge  which  you  pos- 
sess, you  can  also  have  at  your  disposal  a  sufficient  number  of 
workers,  the  necessary  time,  and  the  indispensable  money.  It 
is  unfortunately  true,  that  many  archaeological  investigations 
are  undertaken  without  definite  program  and  carried  out  un- 
systematically, — which  is  usually  the  result  of  difficult  and  un- 
certain financial  circumstances.  It  would  therefore  be  very 
gratifying,  if  in  despatching  the  American  expedition,  under 
your  direction,  these  faults  be  avoided,  and  sufficient  means  for 
at  least  twenty  successive  years  be  placed  at  your  disposal.  If 
such  be  the  case,  then  all  the  rest  will  certainly  go  well  of  itself. 
The  ability  of  the  leader  combined  with  the  well-known  courage 
and  practical  sense  of  his  young  countrymen  seem  to  be  a  suffi- 
cient guarantee  of  success. 

(Signed)     C.  W.  VOLLGRAFF, 
U.  P.  BOISSEVAIN, 
J.  VAN  WAGENINGEN. 

University  of  Amsterdam, 

Amsterdam,  October  15,  1910. 
We  are  very  strongly  convinced  that  the  scientific  exploration 
of  Asia  Minor  must  be  a  matter  of  the  highest  concern  to  all 
students  of  history  and  archaeology.  We  believe  that  haste  in 
this  work  of  research  is  necessary,  for  delay  must  needs  bring 
with  it  the  loss  of  much  that  might  now  be  saved.  A  rich  in- 
stitution will  be  in  a  position  to  bring  about,  or  at  least  to 
give  a  mighty  impetus  to,  the  realization  of  the  project  on  a 
wholly  satisfactory  scale,  and  it  can  do  it  promptly.  By  doing 
it  and  by  doing  it  at  once  such  an  institution  will  be  entitled  to 
the  sincerest  gratitude  of  civilized  and  learned  mankind 
throughout  the  entire  world. 

(Signed)     J.  M.  J.  YALETON, 

S.  A.  NABER, 

K.  KUIPER, 

H.  J.  ELHORST, 

S.  R.  STEINMETZ, 

J.  SIX. 


—82— 

University  of  Utrecht, 

Utrecht,  15,  12,  1910. 
We  feel  quite  assured  that  archaeological  researches  in  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria,  undertaken  on  a  large  scale  and  with  the  cer- 
tainty of  sufficient  funds  guaranteed  beforehand,  will  be 
crowned  with  immense  results  in  various  branches  of  science. 
History,  geography,  and  archaeology,  without  the  least  doubt, 
v^ill  make  enormous  gains.  The  promised  leadership,  moreover, 
of  so  tried  an  explorer  as  Professor  Sterrett  is  apt  to  secure  a 
most  complete  success.  It,  therefore,  seems  to  us,  that  an  Insti- 
tution, possessing  the  means  wherewith  such  a  great  undertak- 
ing may  be  carried  into  effect,  can  hardly  do  anything  better 
than  promote  it  in  the  most  liberal  manner. 

(Signed)  H.  VAN  GELDER, 
J.  C.  VOLLGRAFF, 
P.  H.  DAMSTJE), 
G.  W.  KERNKAMP, 
W.  VOGELSANG. 

Endorsement  of  French  Universities. 

Universiv  of  Paris, 


Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  Novembre  1910. 

Asia  Minor  is  still,  as  Strzygowski  very  correctly  says,  a  new 
country  for  the  history  of  art.  Like  all  those  who  have  travelled 
there  I  know  from  experience  what  a  harvest  of  discoveries  it 
contains  for  those  who  explore  it  thoroughly,  and  like  all  those 
who  have  travelled  there  I  know  from  experience  how  urgent 
this  exploration  is,  if  we  do  not  wish  to  permit  a  host  of  precious 
monuments  that  are  threatened  with  destruction  to  perish  for- 
ever. But  there  is  one  point  in  particular  in  which  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria  commend  themselves  to  the  attention  of  scholars,  I 
mean  in  the  numerous  monuments,  still  imperfectly  known,  that 
are  preserved  in  its  provinces  from  the  Christian  and  Byzantine 
periods.  At  the  time  of  the  Byzantine  empire  Asia  Minor  was 
without  any  doubt  the  richest,  the  most  prosperous,  the   most 


—83— 

civilized  portion  of  the  monarchy;  it  was  the  reservoir  of  the 
power  of  the  empire,  the  cradle  of  its  art.  It  is  in  Syria,  and 
especially  in  Asia  Minor — and  there  alone — that  we  shall  find 
the  solution  of  the  problems  that  present  themselves  in  regard 
to  the  origin  of  Byzantine  art.  The  partial  discoveries  that  have 
already  been  made  there,  the  recent  explorations  of  the  dead 
cities  of  Syria  or  of  the  painted  grottoes  of  Cappadocia  are  but 
specimens  of  what  the  methodical  study  of  the  Christian  and 
Byzantine  monuments  in  those  ;"egions  will  reveal  to  us. 
Therein  lies  an  enormous  task  that  must  be  undertaken,  a  task 
of  tremendous  interest,  a  task  of  extreme  urgency,  and  it  seems 
to  me  that  a  scientific  foundation  would  honor  itself  in  grand 
fashion  by  furnishing  the  means  wherewith  to  accomplish  the 
task ;  and  it  seems  to  me  that  no  one  is  better  qualified  to  direct 
it  than  Mr.  Sterrett. 

(Signed)     CH.  DIEHL, 
Prof esseur  d '  histoire  byzantine  a  1 '  Universite  de  Paris ;  Trav- 
eller ;  Writer. 

University  of  Paris, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  11  Novembre  1910. 

I  approve  entirely  of  Professor  Sterrett 's  project  for  excava- 
tion and  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  Those  are  the 
regions  of  the  first  Mediterranean  civilization.  It  is  in  those 
countries  that  we  shall  perhaps  find  the  key  to  many  problems". 

( Signed )     JULES  MARTHA. 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Traveller;  Writer. 

University  of  Paris,  Cabinet  du  Doyen, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  no  v.  1910. 

Your  plan  for  excavations  in  Asia  Minor  is  extremely  inter- 
esting and  well  thought  out.  I  hope  that  the  grant  will  be  made 
to  you,  as  the  man  most  capable  of  conducting  it  to  a  successful 
issue. 

(Signed)    ALFRED  CROISET, 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Doyen  de  la  Faculte  des   Lettres  de 
1 '  Universite  de  Paris. 


—84— 

University  of  Paris,  Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  le  11  novembre  1910. 

The  results  of  the  partial  explorations  made  up  to  the  present 
in  Asia  Minor  arouse  great  hopes  for  the  future.  Therefore  I 
can  only  approve  in  all  its  points  Professor  Sterrett's  magnifi- 
cent plan  for  methodical  research.  It  is  a  broad  and  vast  enter- 
prise that  will  call  forth  all  the  enereries  of  the  scholars  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  and  its  realization  will  do  great 
honor  to  those  who  Avould  undertake  its  direction.  I  hope, 
therefore,  that  wealthy  promoters  of  the  plan  will  grant  to  Mr. 
Sterrett  and  his  fellow  workers  the  resources  necessary  to  open 
up  a  new  era  in  the  history  of  archaeological  explorations  in 
Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     PROFESSEUK  MAX.  COLLIGNON, 

Membre  de  I'lnstitut. 


Institut  de  France,  Paris, 

(Translation.)  23  Septembre,  1910. 

All  who  are  interested  in  the  history  of  the  past  cannot  but 
hope  for  the  realization  of  the  project  proposed  by  Professor 
J.  R.  S.  Sterrett.  The  creation  of  an  ''Asia  Minor  Exploration 
Fund"  on  a  solid  basis  and  with  resources  at  its  command 
would  be  to  render  a  genuine  service  to  science  and  at  the  same 
time  do  honor  to  the  United  States  of  North  America.  I  join 
most  gladly  the  scholars,  whose  voice,  more  authoritative  than 
•mine,  has  already  pleaded  with  eloquence  for  this  excellent 
cause,  and  I  agree  with  them  that  no  one  is  better  qualified  to 
direct  the  proposed  undertaking  than  he  who  conceived  the 
idea  and  who  has  already  given  so  many  proofs  of  his  skill  as 
explorer  and  of  his  expert  attainments  as  archaeologist  and 
hellenist. 

CLERMONT-GANNEAU, 

Membre  de  1 '  Institut ;  prof esseur  au  College  de  France. 


—85— 

College  de  France, 
Senat, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  26  Novembre  1910. 

The  scientific  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  one  of 
the  most  useful  enterprises  that  could  be  conceived  of  from  the 
point  of  view  of  science,  and  one  that  would  do  the  greatest  ser- 
vice to  the  knowledge  of  the  past  of  humanity. 

The  results  of  the  exploration  of  Egypt  and  Palestine  are 
known.  Asia  Minor  is  of  still  greater  interest  perhaps.  Of 
course  it  was  not  the  seat  of  a  civilization  as  powerful  as  that 
of  Egypt;  its  ruins  do  not  excite  the  same  curiosity  as  do  the 
slightest  traces  of  the  past  of  Palestine.  But  Asia  Minor  was 
the  meeting-place  of  the  Orient  and  the  Occident,  from  the  time 
of  the  Trojan  war  down  to  Byzantine  times;  and,  to  borrow  a 
figure  from  its  own  past,  Asia  Minor  is  the  Gordian  knot  of  an- 
cient history.  But  science  does  not  cut  Gordian  knots ;  it  seeks 
to  untie  them.  It  is  true  that  certain  parts  of  Asia  Minor  have 
been  the  scene  of  successful  explorations,  but  the  larger  part 
of  this  immense  domain  is  still  unknown. 

To  explore  it  completely  there  is  need  only  of  the  spirit  of 
enterprise,  of  which  the  United  States  has  given  such  remark- 
able examples,  and  of  the  great  resources  which  vast  American 
fortunes  alone  can  place  at  the  disposition  of  science,  in  the 
hands  of  a  man  capable  of  conducting  the  enterprise  to  a  suc- 
cessful issue.  In  any  case  the  work  could  not  be  in  better 
hands.  By  reason  of  Professor  Sterrett's  intimate  collaboration 
with  Sir  William  M.  Ramsay,  by  reason  of  his  perfect  knowl- 
edge of  the  country,  and  because  of  his  former  work  he  seems 
quite  designed  for  this  task,  and  all  scholars  will  rejoice  to  see 
the  Direction  of  the  American  Exploration  of  Asia  Minor  com- 
mitted to  his  hands. 

Personally  I  am  waiting  impatiently  for  the  results  of 
methodical  excavations  south  of  Asia  Minor,  in  the  regions  over 
which  the  Hittites  extended  their  empire.  There  can  be  no 
doubt  that  excavations  similar  to  those  so  successfully  con- 
ducted by  Dr.  Puchstein  in  Northern  Syria  will  throw  light  on 
one  of  the  problems,  which  at  the  present  moment  is  of  absorb- 


-86— 


ing  interest  to  all  those  who  are  interested  in  the  study  of  an- 
tiquity. 

(Signed)  PHILIPPE  BERGER, 
Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Professeur  au  College    de    France; 
Senateur  du  Ht.  Rhin. 


College  de  France, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  16  novembre  1910. 

Nothing  that  concerns  the  studies  that  deal  with  antiquity 
appears  to  me  so  desirable  as  the  realization  of  the  enterprise 
formulated  by  you.  Your  acquired  experience  and  your  former 
work  do  not  permit  a  doubt  that,  under  your  direction,  it  will 
have  important  results.  The  history  of  literature  is  inseparable 
from  that  of  civilizations,  and  it  is  clear  that  all  the  discoveries 
which  will  enrich  the  one  will  be  equally  useful  and  profitable 
for  the  other.  Greek  literature  in  particular  needs  to  be  eluci- 
dated in  almost  every  branch  by  fresh  information,  in  default  of 
which  science  finds  itself  in  the  presence  of  insoluble  prob- 
lems. For  my  part,  I  believe  that  many  questions  will  be  asked 
more  profitably,  and  perhaps  answered,  on  the  day  when  we 
know  better  the  history  of  the  Greek  cities  of  Asia  and  that  of 
the  people  with  whom  they  came  in  contact. 

(Signed)    MAURICE  CROISET, 

Membre  de  V  Institut;  professeur  de  langue  et  litterature 
Grecque  au  College  de  France. 

College  de  France, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  15  Novembre  1910. 

Of  course  we  applaud  Professor  Sterrett's  project, — and  with 
both  hands.  To  explore  in  detail,  to  excavate  with  perseverance 
a  country  that  was  occupied  successively  by  the  most  diverse 
nationalities  from  the  Hittites  to  the  Arabs ;  a  country  that,  par- 
ticularly in  Greek  and  Roman  times,  was  covered  with  superb 
cities  full  of  monuments,  works  of  art,  inscriptions, — what  more 
interesting,  what  more  productive  of  results,  what  more  certain 


—87— 

to  bring  honor  to  science,  to  the  scholars  who  take  part  in  the- 
work,  to  the  country  which  furnishes  them  with  the  means  for 
conducting  it  to  a  successful  issue  ? 

(Signed)     R.  CAGNAT, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut. 

College  de  France,  Bibliotheque  Nationale, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  le  16  Novembre  1910. 

You  could  not  choose  a  more  interesting  country  than  Asia 
Minor,  nor  one  more  worthy  of  the  noble  efforts  you  are  putting 
forth.  You  could  not  elaborate  a  programme  more  complete  or 
more  fully  understood. 

(Signed)     E.  BABELON, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut;  Professor  au  College  de  France. 

College  de  France, 
I  think  it  most  desirable  that  Professor  Sterrett's  plans  be 
encouraged  and  receive  the  pecuniary  aid  desired. 

(Signed)     ED.  CHAVANNES, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut. 

ficole  des  Hautes  Etudes, 
Section  des  Sciences  Historiques  et  Philologiques  a  la  Sorbonne, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  le  18  decembre  1910. 

I  must  add  my  testimony  to  those  of  the  scholars  of  all  coun- 
tries who  have  given  their  endorsement  to  the  project  for  the 
archaeological  and  geographical  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  pre- 
sented by  Mr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett. 

For  him  who  knows  the  importance  of  Asia  Minor  in  the  his- 
tory of  civilization  and  the  long  duration  of  the  role  it  played — 
for  him,  on  the  other  hand,  who  knows  how  the  great  public 
works  that  are  being  carried  on  at  the  present  moment — roads 
and  railways — are  threatening  what  is  left  of  so  many  civiliza- 
tions, the  undertaking  proposed  by  the  American  scholar  is  one 


—88-- 

of  the  most  urgent  and  the  most  necessary.  The  moment  has 
come  to  undertake  it  methodically,  with  a  well  thought  out  plan, 
with  that  consecutiveness  which  alone  can  bring  definitive  re- 
sults. It  is  a  great  undertaking  which  will  do  the  very  greatest 
honor  to  the  nation  that  will  assume  the  responsibility  and  the 
expense. 

By  his  experience  in  Asia  Minor,  by  his  former  journeys,  by 
the  services  he  has  already  rendered  to  the  science  of  antiquity, 
Mr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  is  fitted  to  direct  this  important  explora- 
tion which  excites  so  many  hopes.  The  high  esteem  in  which  I 
hold  him  makes  it  my  duty  to  support  his  project  with  all  my 
might.  (Signed)     BERNARD  HAUSSOULIIER, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut. 


Ecole  Pratiques  des  Hautes  Etudes, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  18  novembre  1910. 

I  approve  with  all  my  heart  of  Professor  Sterrett 's  plan. 
Such  an  undertaking  will  bring  great  honor  to  America  and  will 
make  the  name  of  the  donor  dear  to  all  who  are  interested  in 
the  future  of  literature  and  science. 

(Signed)     MICHEL  BReAL, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut. 

Ecole  Pratique  des  Hautes  ]&tudes, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  le  23  Dec.  1910. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  systematic  exploration  of  Asia  Minor 
is  a  scientific  necessity,  and,  humanly  speaking,  such  explora- 
tion is  perhaps  the  greatest  service  that  could  be  rendered  to  all 
the  Mussulman  and  Christian  populations  of  Turkey  in  Asia.  I 
know  by  experience  how  much  influence  the  visits  of  passing 
travellers  and  the  good  advice  of  Occidentals  may  have  in  the 
civil  and  religious  pacification  of  those  unhappy  countries. 
Therefore  I  add  my  name  as  one  of  the  most  ardent  supporters 
of  Professor  Sterrett 's  project. 

(Signed)     B^RARD. 


—89— 

University  of  Lyons, 

Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Lyon,  le  12  Novembre  1910. 

An  accurate  description  of  Syria  and  of  Asia  Minor,  a  com- 
plete inventory  of  the  documents  which  these  countries  could 
furnish  for  the  history  of  the  arts,  of  the  religions,  of  the  civil- 
ization in  general,  are  certainly  most  earnestly  to  be  desired; 
geographers  and  anthropologists,  archaeologists  and  linguists, 
historians  of  primitive  civilizations,  historians  of  Greek  and 
Roman  antiquities,  of  early  Christianity,  of  the  Middle  Ages, — ■ 
all  are  equally  interested.  But  it  is  only  too  true  that  our 
knowledge  of  these  peculiarly  interesting  regions  is  up  to  the 
present  moment  very  incomplete.  Those  of  us  who  have  trav- 
elled in  Asia  have  been  able  to  see  the  facts  for  themselves; 
they  have  discovered  with  stupefaction  that,  in  countries  so 
near  to  Europe  and  so  easily  accessible,  whole  districts  are 
terrae  incognitae ;  they  have  carried  with  them  the  recollection 
of  vast  fields  of  ruins,  promising  rich  scientific  harvests  to 
reapers,  but  lying  waste  and  fallow ;  they  also  carry  with  them 
the  recollection  of  antiquities  of  all  sorts,  inscriptions,  buildings, 
sculptures,  delivered  over  to  destruction.  These  recollections  go 
back  to  a  period  of  twenty  years  ago;  since  then,  for  various 
reasons,  but  especially  in  consequence  of  the  building  of  lines 
of  railways,  the  destruction  has  been  accelerated.  Therefore  we 
should  hear  with  joy  that  a  new  body  of  scholars  had  been 
added  to  those  already  in  the  field  to  hunt  for,  to  collect,  to  pub^ 
lish  the  documents  that  are  still  to  be  found  above  ground  or  are 
concealed  beneath  the  soil;  especially  if  this  new  expedition, 
having  at  its  disposal  considerable  pecuniary  resources  for  a 
long  series  of  years,  could  proceed  in  its  researches  in  a  more 
methodical,  more  exhaustive,  manner  than  has  usually  been  the 
case ;  and  if  it  could  have  at  its  head  a  chief  like  Mr.  Sterrett, 
[worthy  disciple  of  the  illustrious  explorer  Sir  William  Ram- 
say] ,  himself  an  experienced  traveller  and  the  author  of  works 
justly  held  in  esteem  by  the  entire  learned  world. 

In  creating  an  ''Asia  Minor  Exploration  Fund"  America 
will  merit  well  of  science. 


—90— 

(Signed)     PH.  E.  LEGRAND, 
HENRI  LECHAT, 
PHILIPPE  HOMO, 
CH.  RENEL, 
V.  LORET, 
L.  RAMAIN, 
F.  ALLeGRE, 
EM.  JULLIEN, 
M.  ZIMMERMANN. 


University  of  Toulouse, 

Faculte  des  Lettres. 
(Translation.)  Toulouse,  le  22  novembre  1910. 

We  second  with  our  whole  heart  the  wishes  expressed  by  our 
colleagues  of  the  Universities  of  the  whole  world.  A  great 
project  for  archaeological  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria, 
like  that  outlined  by  Mr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett,  deserves  to  be  pro- 
moted in  every  way.  Excavations  and  expeditions  undertaken 
in  the  same  regions  during  the  past  century  have  shown  what 
riches  lie  buried  beneath  the  soil;  it  is  certain  that  they  have 
not  been  exhausted.  Geographical,  prehistorical,  classical, 
mediaeval  studies  will  reap  rich  harvests  there,  if  the  enter- 
prise, conducted  by  a  scholar  as  authoritative  as  Mr.  Sterrett, 
could  count  on  sufficient  funds:  and  it  would  be  an  honor  to 
a  richly  endowed  institution,  if  it  would  devote  a  portion  of  its 
income  to  such  research. 

(Signed)     F.  DuRRBACH, 
E.  CARTAILHAC, 
CH.  Ll&CRIVAIN, 
MOUDRY  BEAUDOUIN, 
DOGNON, 
L.  DELARUELLE. 


—91— 

University  of  Lille, 

Institut  de  Papyrologie, 
(Translation.)  Lille,  le  28  Decembre  1910. 

We  have  read  with  great  interest  Professor  Sterrett's  note 
on  a  project  for  exploration  and  excavation  in  Asia  Minor,  and 
we  hope  with  all  our  heart  for  its  success.  It  is  certain  that  the 
furtherance  of  such  an  undertaking  would  honor  a  University, 
and  a  mere  glance  at  the  plan  gives  assurance  that  the  enter- 
prise will  be  conducted  in  a  methodical  manner. 
(Signed)  PIERRE  JOUGUET, 
(Authorized  signatures)     HENRI  BORNECQUE, 

JULES  GAY, 
NICOLARBOT, 
.  EMILE  THOMAS, 
PHILIPPE  SAGNAC, 
ALEXANDRE  DE  SAINT-LEGER, 
ALBERT  DEMANGEON. 


University  of  Bordeaux, 
(Translation.)  Bordeaux,  le  27  novembre  1910. 

There  is  no  spot  of  earth  on  the  face  of  our  globe  so  laden 
with  history  as  this  gigantic  meeting-place  of  the  three  conti- 
nents of  antiquity.  If  the  New  World,  with  its  enormous  re- 
sources, should  undertake  to  search  into  the  origins  of  the  Old 
World,  it  is  evident  that  our  knowledge  will  make  prodigious 
steps  forward.  I  hope  that  the  United  States  will  lend  its 
name  to  this  colossal  work,  and  that  an  enlightened  liberality 
will  make  it  possible  for  European  contingents  to  take  part  in 
the  enterprise,  and  that  the  direction  of  the  excavations  and 
surface  research  be  confided  to  a  leader,  who,  by  his  journeys 
and  his  books,  has  proved  himself  to  be  a  man  of  action  and  a 
scholar,  as  you  have  done. 

(Signed)     R.  RADET, 

Professeur  d'  histoire  ancienne  a  1'  Universite,  Doyen  de  la 
Faculte  des  Lettres. 


—92— 

University  of  Grenoble, 
Faculte  des  Lettres,  Cabinet  du  Doyen, 
(Translation.)  Grenoble,  le  20  Novembre  1910. 

The  project  outlined  by  Professor  Sterrett  for  the  archae- 
ological exploration  of  Asia  Minor  is  of  the  very  highest  in- 
terest. It  is  an  unequalled  mine  of  documents  precious  for  the 
history  of  the  past,  and  the  methodical  and  complete  exploita- 
tion of  this  mine  is  of  an  extreme  urgency.  Moreover,  the  great 
competency  of  Professor  Sterrett,  well  known  to  all  archae- 
ologists, is  a  solid  guaranty  of  success,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt 
that  he  is  the  man  for  the  task.  The  promoters  of  the  plan 
would  render  an  inestimable  service  to  science  in  allowing  him 
to  carry  out  this  grand  enterprise. 

(Signed)     TH.  COLAKDEAU, 
T.  de  CROZALS, 
S.  CHABERT, 
RAOUL  BLANCHARD. 

University  of  Montpellier, 
(Translation.)  Montpellier,  25  Novembre  1910. 

We  agree  in  believing  that  such  an  enterprise  is  at  the  pres- 
ent moment  one  of  those  from  which  the  science  of  the  past  can 
expect  the  most  important  results,  and  we  hope  that  American 
men  of  wealth  may  make  it  possible  to  realize  it.  We  add 
that  no  one  seems  to  us  better  qualified  than  you  are,  with  your 
long  experience  in  the  Orient,  to  direct  a  scientific  expedition  in 
Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     ANDRE  JOUBIN, 
M.  BONNET, 

LEON  G.  PeLISSIER  (Dean), 
P.  GACHON, 

E.  CH.  BABUT, 

F.  MAURY. 


—93- 


University  of  Rennes, 
Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Rennes,  le  16  nov.  1910. 

The  Council  of  the  Faculty  of  Letters  of  Rennes  endorses 
unanimously  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  historical  and  geo- 
graphical research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  It  hopes  that  the 
grant  may  be  allowed,  for  in  no  other  part  of  the  ancient  world 
can  we  expect  to  discover  richer  and  more  interesting  remains 
of  ancient  civilizations. 

(Signed)^  G.  DOTTIN,  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Letters. 
The  Council  of  the  Faculty  of  Letters  consists  of : 

DELAUNAY, 
BOURDON, 

See, 

JORDAN, 

VACHER, 

FEUILLERAT, 

MACE, 

LE  BRAZ, 

ALLAIS. 


University  of  Poitiers, 
(Translation.)  Poitiers,  17  novembre  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  a  methodical  and  complete  in- 
vestigation of  the  antiquities  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  in  so  far 
as  they  are  still  extant  is  most  judicious  and  practical.     We 
earnestly  hope  that  this  work,  which  will  give  to  human  science 
documents  that  will  be  useful  from  so  many  points  of  view, 
may  be  undertaken  with  all  speed.     Success  will  be  assured  it 
under  the  earnest  and  competent  direction  of  Professor  Sterrett, 
and  by  means  of  the  subvention  of  an  enlightened  generosity. 
(Signed)     E.  ERNAULT, 
(Verbal  assent  by)     A.  fflLD  (Dean), 
H.  CARR^, 
E.  ANDOUIN. 


—94— 

University  of  BesanQon, 
'        Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Besangon,  17  novembre  1910. 

I  warmly  endorse  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  excavations 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  and  I  gladly  add  my  enthusiastic  ap- 
proval to  that  of  the  most  illustrious  representatives  of  science 
in  all  countries.  No  lover  of  ancient  culture  can  be  indifferent 
to  this  enterprise,  as  inspiring  as  it  is  timely.  It  will  certainly 
bring  to  light  a  wealth  of  highly  interesting  documents.  It  be- 
longs to  America,  the  country  of  magnificent  benefactions  and 
generous  initiative,  by  setting  this  glorious  example  to  win  uni- 
versal admiration  and  gratitude.  Professor  Sterrett  is  as  made 
for  the  direction  of  the  work. 

(Signed)     HILAIRE  VANDAELE. 

University  of  Aix, 
Faculte  des  Lettres, 
(Translation.)  Aix,  le  19  Novembre  1910. 

We  endorse  in  its  entirety  the  plan  of  Professor  Sterrett. 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  will  certainly  be  the  countries  chosen  for 
archaeological  research  in  the  twentieth  century. 

(Signed)     J.  BRENOUS, 
CAHEN, 
MICHEL  CLERC. 

Institut  de  France, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  nov.  1910. 

We  have  good  grounds  for  expecting  that  an  accurate  and 
exhaustive  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  will  shed  light 
upon  the  earliest  history  and  the  entire  past  of  Aryan  peoples. 
It  is  impossible  in  this  connexion  not  to  think  of  that  inscription 
of  Boghaz  Kieui  which  recently  recalled  to  our  minds  some 
names  of  Vedic  divinities ;  it  is  also  impossible  not  to  think  of 
those  long  and  intimate  relations  between  the  Orient  and 
Nearer  Asia,  concerning  which  it  would  be  of  such  transcendent 
interest  to  get  that  accurate  information  which  a  happy  dis- 


—95— 

covery  might  suddenly  make  to  flash  from  the  night.  The  plan 
of  research  commands  the  warmest  sympathy  of  all  minds 
capable  of  feeling  and  appreciating  the  great  call  of  the  past. 
The  task  is  immense ;  but  it  will  bring  all  the  more  honor  to  the 
liberality  that  will  render  it  possible  and  to  the  ability  of  the 
leader  who  will  be  called  upon  to  triumph  over  difficulties,  in- 
finite, it  is  true,  but  not  greater  than  his  experience. 

(Signed)     EMILE  SEN  ART, 

Membre  de  1'  Institut;  President  de  la  Societe  Asiatique. 
(Translation.)  Paris,  30  Novembre  1910. 

The  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  conducted  on  the 
plan  so  well  thought  out  and  presented  by  Professor  Sterrett, 
will  be  a  work  of  the  first  order  of  interest  and  will  do  the 
greatest  honor  to  the  nation  that  undertakes  it  and  to  the 
munificence  that  renders  it  possible.  It  was  in  Asia  Minor  that 
the  old  empires  of  the  Euphrates  and  the  Nile,  beyond  which 
lay  nothing  but  the  geologic  ages,  came  into  contact  and  into 
conflict  with  each  other  and  with  a  third  empire,  that  of  the 
Hittites,  of  whom  we  are  but  just  now  getting  glimpses.  In 
Asia  Minor  we  may  hope  to  find  at  least  a  part  of  the  most 
ancient  archives  of  those  groups  of  nations  which  on  the  north 
from  Illyria  to  the  Caspian  Sea,  and  on  the  south  from  the 
Peloponnesus  to  Syria,  where  the  carriers  of  that  Aegean  civil- 
ization that  is  to  this  day  still  totally  unknown, — nations  which 
in  the  end  became  more  or  less  blended  with  Hellenism.  It  is 
from  Asia  Minor  that  there  has  come  to  us  the  first  almost 
dated  mention  of  Vedic  divinities.  Hellenism  itself,  with 
which  we  enter  upon  our  own  history,  had  in  Asia  Minor  its 
first  and  its  second  periods  of  florescence,  and  even  a  third, 
under  the  sceptre  of  Byzantium.  It  was  in  Asia  Minor  that 
Christianity  elaborated  its  teachings  and  its  heresies,  in  contact 
with  and  sometimes  under  the  influence  of  the  religions  of 
Greater  Asia.  .  .  .  The  time  has  come  for  a  comprehensive', 
coherent,  methodical  exploration,  carried  on  viribus  unitis  by 
well  organized  bodies  of  experts,  sure  of  a  to-morrow,  disposing 
of  sufficient  means,  and  controlled  by  one  guiding  mind  that 


—96— 

embraces  them  all.  Not  only  are  the  times  ripe  for  such  an 
enterprise,  but  this  is  actually  the  psychological  moment  and 
to  defer  it  only  for  a  few  years  would  be  to  run  the  risk  of 
being  too  late,  so  rapidly  are  matters  changing  in  the  Orient  of 
to-day,  invaded,  as  it  is,  by  modern  progress, — ^which  is  itself  a 
terrible  destroyer.  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  meets  all  the 
exigencies;  he  is  its  natural  leader;  the  undertaking  will  ad- 
vance science  in  an  eminent  degree;  it  will  do  equal  honor  to 
American  wealth  and  American  initiative,  and  it  will  be  truly 
worthy  of  a  great  nation. 

(Signed)     A.  BARTH, 

Membre  de  V  Institut. 


(Translation.)  Paris,  17  novembre  1910. 

I  endorse  with  all  my  heart  this  grand  plan  for  excavations  in 
Asia  Minor  and  I  hope  most  ardently  for  its  prompt  and  happy 
realization.  I  do  not  doubt  that  all  my  colleagues  of  the  Acade- 
my of  Inscriptions  hold  the  same  opinion  and  second  your  gen- 
erous efforts  to  bring  to  a  successful  issue  what  you  have  under- 
taken with  such  devotion  to  the  science  of  archaeology. 

(Signed)     GUSTAVE  SCHLUMBEEGER. 

Membre  de  1'  Institut. 


Endorsement  of  Belgian  Universities. 

University  of  Ghent, 
(Translation.)  Gand,  le  29  novembre  1910. 

Few  regions  in  the  world  have  been  so  continuously  in  the 
centre  of  the  great  conflicts  of  ideas  and  civilizations  as  has 
been  Asia  Minor.  In  the  prehellenic  and  hellenistic  periods,  as 
well  as  in  the  times  of  the  beginnings  of  Christianity,  Asia 
Minor  was  the  scene  of  events  of  great  importance  for  the  un- 
derstanding of  history.  Recent  explorers,  and  among  them  our 
M.  Cumont,  have  pointed  out  that  researches,  pursued  method- 
ically and  uninterruptedly,  will  bring  to  light  documents  that 


—97— 

will  be  real  revelations.  All  are  unanimous  that  the  progress- 
ing economic  development  of  these  regions  threatens  to  do  in- 
calculable harm  to  what  is  left  of  ancient  monuments.  It  is 
imperative  that  we  save  the  antiquities  of  Syria  and  Asia  Minor. 
The  plan  proposed  by  Mr.  Sterrett  seems  to  be  of  the  best  con- 
ceivable. He  has  himself  proved  it  to  be  so.  The  opportunity 
by  which  he  would  profit  is  perhaps  unique.  There  are  few 
scientific  enterprises  that  can  claim  our  sympathy  from  so  many 
points  of  view.  If  some  man  or  institution  will  consent  to 
grant  to  Mr.  Sterrett  the  money  he  needs,  we  shall  have  to 
thank  it  for  the  recovery  of  a  very  important  part  of  our  past, 
— perhaps  that  part  which  it  is  of  most  interest  to  the  world  to 
know. 

(Signed)     P.  THOMAS, 

A.  de  CEULENEEK, 

J.  BIDEZ, 

A.  KOEESCH, 

L.  PREUD 'HOMME. 

University  of  Liege, 
(Translation.)  Liege,  le  28  novembre  1910. 

In  the  domain  of  historical  studies  there  is  no  task  which  to- 
day seems  to  be  more  full  of  promise  than  the  exploration  of 
Asia  Minor.  The  Director  of  such  a  large  undertaking  must 
possess  various  qualifications,  and  competent  men  agree  that  they 
are  to  be  found  in  an  eminent  degree  in  Mr.  Sterrett.  He  did 
important  work  as  an  explorer  and  he  published  his  results  in  a 
way  to  satisfy  the  most  exacting,  so  that  he  is  admirably 
equipped  to  perform  this  two-fold  task  demanded  of  the  expe- 
dition,— one  which  the  world  of  scholars  will  follow  with  its 
good  wishes ;  he  will  know  how  to  collect  the  material  and  how 
to  put  it  promptly  into  the  hands  of  scholars. 
(Signed)     CH.  MICHEL, 

L.  PARMENTIER. 


—98— 

(Translation.)  Bruxelles,  16  Nov.  1910. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  for  me  to  say  how  greatly  I  approve  of 
the  plan  proposed  by  you  for  a  systematized  exploration  of 
Asia  Minor.  I  have  sufficiently  proved  the  value  I  attach  to 
that  kind  of  research  by  myself  making  two  journeys  for  the 
purpose  of  study,  one  in  1900  in  Pontus  and  Armenia  and  the 
other  in  1907  in  Northern  Syria.  The  means  which  you  propose 
to  employ  seem  to  me  the  most  suitable  for  bringing  the  maxi- 
mum results.  I  approve  entirely  of  what  you  say  concerning 
the  necessity  of  choosing  fixed  regions  and  of  exploring  each  of 
them,  from  a  centre  of  operations,  as  completely  as  possible, 
village  by  village.  That  is  the  only  truly  scientific  procedure ; 
it  leaves  almost  nothing  to  chance.  Hitherto  archaeologists 
have  counted  too  much  on  Good  Fortune,  who  is  a  capricious 
goddess.  Without  being  able  to  employ  the  method  which  you 
outline  and  without  reaching  the  ideal  which  you  propose  to 
yourself,  we  have  at  least  attempted  to  approach  it,  Messrs.  An- 
derson, Gregoire,  and  I,  in  publishing  together  the  collection  of 
all  the  inscriptions  of  Pontus,  a  Province  which  we  had  trav- 
ersed successively  with  different  objects  in  view.  But,  like  all 
those  who  know  the  Koman  Orient,  I  am  convinced  that  what  is 
to  be  found  on  the  surface  of  the  ground  is  of  slight  importance 
by  the  side  of  that  which  excavations  would  produce.  You 
have  pointed  out  quite  correctly  what  historical,  geographical, 
and  archaeological  revelations  are  to  be  expected.  But  every 
one  thinks  of  the  results  of  such  revelations  from  the  point  of 
view  of  his  own  preferred  studies  and  sees  more  clearly  the  ad- 
vantages which  they  may  be  expected  to  bring  from  that  stand- 
point. Therefore,  permit  me  to  insist  upon  the  considerable  im- 
portance which  the  realization  of  your  project  will  have  upon 
our  knowledge  of  ancient  religion.  All,  or  almost  all  the  great 
sanctuaries  of  Asia  Minor:  Pessinus,  Comana  Pontica,  Comana 
Aurea,  Zela,  Castabala,  etc.,  are  still  concealed  beneath  rubbish, 
and  perhaps  a  few  strokes  of  the  pick  would  suffice  to  make 
sensational  discoveries.  We  must  remember  that  Asia  Minor 
was  the  real  cradle  of  Christianity,  and  it  is  of  importance,  even 
for  theologians,  to  know  the  place  where  Christianity  was  de- 


—99— 

veloped  and  to  learn  what  paganism  was  in  those  countries 
when  the  Good  News  was  first  preached  there.  Therein  lies  at 
the  present  moment  one  of  the  grand  problems  in  the  history  of 
religions;  and  the  task  to  be  accomplished  is  one  of  the  most 
important  that  can  be  demanded  of  the  scientific  activity  of  the 
twentieth  century. 

If  the  necessary  grant  is  made  to  you,  I  do  not  doubt  that  you 
will  also  find  the  men,  and  they  are  equally  indispensable.  In 
an  enterprise  that  should  be  of  long  duration,  your  young  col- 
laborators, if  they  have  been  well  chosen,  will  be  educated  for 
their  definitive  work  by  the  preliminary  labors. 

(Signed)     FRANZ  CUMONT. 


Universite  Catholique  de  Louvain, 
(Translation.)  Louvain,  le  Decembre  1910. 

All  those,  who,  for  whatever  reason,  are  interested  in  the 
history  of  ancient  civilizations,  will  applaud  Professor  Ster- 
rett's  plan  for  surface  research  and  systematic  excavations  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  The  important  results  acquired  up  to 
the  present  by  isolated  explorations  are  a  certain  proof  of  the 
success  that  cannot  fail  to  crown  the  execution  of  a  plan  so 
broad  and  complete  as  Professor  Sterrett's.  We  hope  that 
American  wealth  will  seize  this  opportunity  to  add  new  lustre 
to  American  science  and  that,  in  confident  reliance  upon  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett's  scientific  authority  and  experience,  it  may 
provide  the  means  wherewith  to  realize  this  magnificent  enter- 
prise. 

(Signed)     T.  MAYENCE, 

EDM.  REMY, 

CH.  MOELLER, 

F.  COLLARD, 

J.  SENCIE. 


—100— 

Endorsement  of  Scandinavian  Universities. 

University  of  Copenhagen, 

Copenhagen,  Nov.  26,  1910. 
We  have  not  the  slightest  hesitation  in  warmly  recommend- 
ing Dr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett's  petition.  A  thorough  and  compre- 
hensive investigation  of  Asia  Minor,  and  above  all  of  its  central 
and  eastern  parts,  will  no  doubt  mark  an  epoch  in  the  study  of 
history,  ancient  as  well  as  mediaeval,  and  promises  moreover 
highly  interesting  results  in  the  fields  of  anthropology  and  the 
science  of  language. 

(Signed)     VILH.  THOMSEN, 
M.  CL.  GERTZ, 
JOH.  STEENSTRUP, 
FR.  BUHL, 
J.  L.  HEIBERG, 
A.  B.  DRACHMANN, 
J.  C.  JACOBSEN, 
KR.  ERSLEV, 
VALDEMAR  SCHMIDT, 
CHR.  BLINKENBERG, 
K.  F.  KINCH. 

University  of  Copenhagen, 
Prinsens  Palais,  Copenhagen,  Dec.  16,  1910. 

The  archaeological  and  historical  research  in  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria  planned  by  Professor  Sterrett  is  a  task  of  the  greatest 
scientific  importance,  and  the  valne  of  its  right  execution  can 
hardly  be  appreciated  too  highly. 

As  to  the  later  historical  times  I  need  not  to  point  out  the 
reasons  for  that  judgment:  every  one  knows  what  part  Asia 
Minor  has  played  in  the  great  historical  spectacle  that  begins 
with  the  foundation  of  the  Christian  Church  on  the  ruins  of 
pagan  religions,  and  ends  with  the  establishment  of  the  Otto- 
man Empire.  The  study  of  the  monuments  illustrating  the 
various  acts  of  that  great  play  will  be  most  welcomed  by 
Christian  and  mediaeval  archaeology,  by  the  history  of  modern 
art,  and  by  political  history. 


—101— 

With  regard  to  the  remoter  periods  I  should  remind  the 
reader  of  two  facts,  viz.,  (1)  Asia  Minor,  and  especially  the 
eastern  parts  of  it,  has  been  the  seat  of  great  realms  whose 
power  and  importance  for  the  general  history  of  mankind  have 
left  many  traces  in  the  Scriptures  and  in  the  Assyrian  and 
Egyptian  records;  but  the  true  nature  and  the  civilization  of 
the  peoples  belonging  to  those  realms  are  still  very  imperfectly 
known.  Progress  can  here  only  be  hoped  for  through  a  careful 
examination  of  the  land  itself  and  of  the  monuments  still  to  be 
found  above  and  under  the  soil.  That  task  alone  would  per- 
fectly justify  the  great  undertaking  planned  by  Professor 
Sterrett.  (2)  Asia  Minor  has  in  some  respects  from  the  re- 
motest times  been  the  source  of,  or  else  the  thoroughfare  for, 
many  of  the  movements  that  gradually  transformed  the 
aborigines  of  Europe  from  barbaric  savages  into  civilized  peo- 
ples. The  modern  civilization  of  the  old  and  the  new  world  has 
its  origin  in  the  acting  of  oriental  influences  on  the  nature  of 
the  European  races,  and  for  the  study  of  the  infancy  of  Euro- 
pean culture  the  knowledge  of  the  early  monuments  and  an- 
tiquities of  Asia  Minor  is  of  the  greatest  importance.  Every 
archaeologist  who  has  undertaken  studies  of  the  prehistoric  and 
early  historical  development  of  the  European  peoples  has  met 
with  the  regrettable  fact  that  the  story  of  ancient  Asia  Minor 
is  a  vast  unknown  desert,  with  but  few  oases,  and  that  in  con- 
sequence the  only  road  that  could  take  him  forward  has  in  many 
cases  proved  impracticable.  To  point  out  only  a  few  of  the 
main  problems:  the  connection  of  the  Greek  and  the  Asiatic 
stone  age,  the  meeting  of  Egyptian  and  Oriental  influences  in 
Pre-Mycenaean  Greece,  the  invention  and  introduction  of  paint- 
ing in  ceramic  art,  and,  later  on,  the  mutual  relations  in  the 
already  highly  civilized  Mycenaean  age,  the  making  of  the 
Greek  gods  through  combination  of  original  European  religion 
with  ideas  from  the  East,  etc.  An  exhaustive  knowledge  of  the 
early  relics  of  Asia  Minor  will  not  only  clear  up  the  history  of 
Asia  Minor  itself,  but  also  the  beginning  and  first  development 
of  Greek  civilization. 

I  should,  therefore,  recommend  the  proposed  researches  that 


102- 


promise,  if  uudertakeu  on  a  sufficiently  large  scale  and  by  the 
right  men,  results  of  great  scientific  importance. 

(Signed)     CHR.  BLINKENBERG,  Phil.  Dr., 
Inspector  in  the  National  Museum,  Copenhagen ;  Member  of 
the  Danish  Expedition  to  Rhodes ;  Author  of  ' '  Archaeologische 
Studien,"  ''The  Thunder-Weapon  in  Religion  and  Folklore," 
etc. 

La  Glyptotheque  de  Ny  Carlsberg, 
Musee  de  Sculpture,  Copenhagen,  le  22,  12,  10. 
I  think  it  is  quite  evident  that  archaeological  research  in  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Sterrett  will  be  of 
very  great  value  to  science  and  most  important  for   every  one 
who  is  interested  in  history  and  art. 

(Signed)     DR.  CARL  JACOBSEN, 
Director  of  the  Royal  Museum  of  Art  in  Copenhagen. 

University  of  Upsala, 
Filosofiska  Fakulteten  i  Upsala, 

November  27,  1910. 
In  spite  of  many  journeys  of  research  the  interior  of  Asia 
Minor  in  particular  is  still  a  "terra  incognita,"  where  the  most 
important  prehistoric  and    historic    problems    remain    to    be 
solved.    We  greet  such  an  undertaking  with  the  greatest  ap- 
proval, and  we  are  convinced  that  the  personal  qualities  of 
Mr.  Sterrett  will  warrant  a  successful  issue  of  the  task. 
(Signed)     0.  A.  DANIELSSON, 
P.  PERSSON, 
K.  REINH.  GEIJER, 
SAM  WIDE. 

University  of  Upsala, 

Upsala,  Jan.  10,  1911. 
We  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Philosophical  Faculty  of 
the  University  of  Upsala  take  the  liberty  of  vigorously  concur- 
ring in  the  opinion  advanced  by  our  colleagues,  0.  A.  Daniels- 
son,  K.  R.  Geijer,  P.  Persson,  and  S.  Wide  concerning  Professor 
J.  R.  S.  Sterrett 's  project  for  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria. 


—103— 

(Signed)     HAROLD  HJaRNE, 
K.  F.  JOHANSSON, 
EINAR  LOFSTEDT, 
H.  SJORGEN, 
ERNST  ANDERSSON, 
LENNART  KJELLBERG. 
I  congratulate  Professor  Sterrett  very  heartily  not  only  on  his 
splendid  idea  of  making  just  now  such  a  vigorous  effort  to  save 
for  science  the  numerous  remains  of  ancient  civilizations  in  Asia 
Minor,  but  also  on  the  many  sympathetic  declarations  from  the 
very  first  authorities  on  such  matters. 

(Signed)     LENNART  KJELLBERG. 

University  of  Christiania, 
Universitetets  Oldsagsamling, 

Christiania,  den  25  Oct.  1910. 
Further  researches  and  excavations  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria 
are  of  the  greatest  interest  for  the  history  of  early  human  cul- 
ture. We  think  that  a  Maecenas,  who  will  give  sufficient  means 
to  such  researches,  will  thereby  further  in  an  eminent  degree 
the  knowledge  of  the  history  of  mankind. 

(Signed)     P.  0.  SCHJOTT, 

L.  B.  STENERSEN, 
J.  A.  KNUDTZON, 
J.  LIEBLEIN, 
YNGVAR  NIELSEN, 
ALEXANDER  SEIPPEL, 
A.  TORP, 

GABRIEL  GUSTAFSON. 
Prof.  J.  A.  Knudtzon  has  given  a  stronger  expression  of  our 
sympathy  in  these  words,  ''The  latest  excavations  in  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria  warrant  the  hope  that  a  continuation  of  them  will  be 
of  extraordinary  value.  It  may  even  be  presumed  that  in  no 
other  places  on  earth  will  excavations  or  other  researches  give 
results  so  valuable  for  ancient  history,  archaeology,  ethnology, 
and  linguistics  as  in  those  countries.  Therefore  it  is  most  de- 
sirable that  such  research  should  be  continued  there  on  a  large 
scale.'* 


—104— 

Endorsement  of  the  University  of  Athens  and  of  Archaeological 
Institutions  in  Athens. 

University  of  Athens,  Greece, 
(Translation.)  3  November  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  project  for  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria,  which  has  been  endorsed  by  the  most  distinguished 
archaeologists,  philologists,  and  historians  of  Europe  and  Amer- 
ica, could  only  meet  with  a  still  stronger  endorsement  in  Greece ; 
because  from  the  most  ancient  times  the  history  of  Greece  is 
inseparably  connected  with  that  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  and 
from  the  proposed  systematical  exploration  of  those  countries  we 
look  with  confidence  for  a  flood  of  new  knowledge  to  be  poured 
upon  the  origin  of  the  Greek  nation,  upon  the  inception  and 
development  of  its  religion  and  its  art,  upon  the  history  of  its 
language,  upon  the  history  of  the  states  which  it  founded  in  the 
Orient,  and  in  general  upon  the  origin  and  spread  of  its  civil- 
ization. The  researches,  carried  on  during  the  last  decades  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  by  Professor  Sterrett  and  others,  have 
been  more  or  less  restricted,  and  yet  they  have  made  valuable 
contributions  towards  the  understanding  of  these  questions. 
But  a  more  insistent  study  and  an  intenser  activity  is  greatly 
to  be  desired,  because  it  is  certain  that  otherwise  many  monu- 
ments will  be  damaged  or  utterly  annihilated.  Therefore  we 
regard  as  most  timely  and  opportune  Professor  Sterrett's  pro- 
posal that  a  great  expedition,  consisting  of  experts  and  provided 
with  ample  means,  undertake,  under  his  direction,  the  continu- 
ous and  methodical  exploration  of  those  vast  countries.  We  feel 
certain  that  such  a  work  will  be  worthy  of  a  great  nation.  The 
successful  management  of  the  expedition  is  guaranteed  by  the 
personality  of  Professor  Sterrett  whose  competency  has  been 
clearly  proven  by  researches  and  admirable  writings  in  this 
very  field. 

(Signed)     SPYRIDON  BASES,  Dean 
G.  MISTRIOTES 
GEORGIOS  N.  HATZIDAKES 
N.  G.  POLITES 
GREG.  N.  BERNADAKES 


—105— 

S.  K.  SAKELLAROPOULOS 
A.  N.  SKIAS 
MARGARITES  EUANGELIDES 
CHR.  TSOUNTAS 

University  of  Athens, 
Athens,  24  Nov.  1910. 
The  systematical  exploration  of  Asia  is  a  great  undertaking 
from  every  scientific  point  of  view:  it  is  in  keeping  with  the 
spirit  of  our  times  and  is  therefore  of  international  interest, — 
an  interest  much  greater  for  us  Greeks,  because  Asia  Minor  was 
always  closely  connected  with  Greece  historically  and  ethno- 
logically.  I  am  particularly  interested  in  the  history  of  Asia 
Minor  in  the  middle  ages;  I  should  welcome  a  thoroughgoing 
investigation  of  the  old  churches  and  monasteries,  a  study  of 
the  mediaeval  works  of  art  and  manuscripts,  the  gathering  and 
publication  of  Byzantine  and  later  inscriptions,  and  a  research 
into  the  ever  shifting  fate  of  Asia  Minor  in  the  middle  ages.  I 
should  also  like  to  know  that  the  folk-lore  of  the  peninsula  will 
be  studied,  and  the  manuscripts  and  documents  in  European 
libraries  were  to  be  searched  for  historical  materials. 

(Signed)     PROF.  DR.  SPYR.  P.  LAMBROS. 

University  of  Athens, 
(Translation.)  Athens,  November  30,  1910. 

Nothing  bears  witness  to  an  advanced  stage  of  culture  in  a 
nation  as  much  as  its  recognition  of  the  value  of  the  historical 
sciences  and  its  promotion  of  them,  and  nothing  promotes  the 
historical  sciences  as  much  as  archaeological  research  in  coun- 
tries which  were  distinguished  because  of  their  enlightened  civ- 
ilization in  the  olden  times.  Asia  Minor  is  such  a  country  par 
excellence,  and  Professor  Sterrett's  former  success  in  that  field 
guarantees  the  success  of  any  similar  work  in  the  future. 

(Signed)     ANDREAS  N.  SKIAS. 


—106— 

Parnassos  Philological  Society, 
(Translation.)  Athens,  29  October  1910. 

At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Parnassos  Philological  Society  Pro- 
fessor N.  G.  Polites  made  a  report  on  your  plan  for  a  systematic 
scientific  investigation  of  Asia  Minor  and  parts  of  Syria.  Our 
Society  gave  unanimous  expression  to  the  hope  that  this  magni- 
ficent project  might  be  realized  by  the  granting  of  the  abundant 
means  necessary  therefor.  We  are  firmly  convinced  that  the 
methodical  investigation  of  those  countries  for  what  is  on  the 
surface  will  be  most  fruitful  in  observations  and  discoveries 
calculated  to  shed  a  bright  light,  not  only  on  their  prehistoric 
times,  but  also  on  their  condition  in  historic  times,  particularly 
in  the  Hellenistic  and  Roman  period,  and  in  the  Byzantine  epoch. 
And  besides  that  it  will  insure  at  least  the  scientific  study  of 
monuments  which  barbarism  is  destroying  every  day. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  our  Society  that  the  success  of  the  great 
enterprise  is  guaranteed  by  the  fact  that  the  author  of  the 
Epigraphical  Journey  in  Asia  Minor  and  of  the  Wolfe  Expedi- 
tion to  Asia  Minor  and  of  other  collections  of  inscriptions  of 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  to  direct  it. 

(Signed)     T.  A.  ARGYROPOULOS,  President, 

S.  A.  PAPAFRANCOS,  General  Secretary. 

National  Archaeological  Museum, 
(Translation.)  Athens,  November  29,  1910. 

Science  in  general  will  be  greatly  advanced  by  excavations 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria — to  the  great  good  of  humanity,  of 
which  Asia  Minor  is  justly  regarded  as  the  cradle.  Only  a  few 
places  in  Asia  Minor  have  been  excavated  and  explored  by  com- 
petent archaeologists,  in  the  number  of  whom  may  be  mentioned 
my  brother-in-law,  Schliemann,  who  won  world-wide  fame  by 
his  excavations  in  Troy.  A  new  Schliemann  will  be  found  in 
Mr.  Sterrett,  the  traveller  and  scholar,  and  science  will  erect  a 
golden  statue  in  everlasting  commemoration  of  the  virtue  of 
the  donor  of  the  funds,  as  did  the  Greeks  and  the  Romans  in 
the  olden  time  in  honor  of  their  Choregi. 

(Signed)     P.  KASTRIOTES, 
Director  of  the  National  Archaeological  Museum. 


—107— 
The  National  Numismatical  Museum 


(Translation.)  Athens,  5  November  1910. 

I  know  of  no  scientific  task  more  important,  more  to  be  de- 
sired, or  more  urgent  than  the  systematic  exploration  and  ex- 
cavation of  Asia  Minor  in  its  entirety,  for  it  is  the  cradle  and 
the  theatre  of  the  ancient  civilizations  of  the  Hittites,  Phry- 
gians, Greeks,  Romans,  Early  Christians,  Byzantines,  and  Sel- 
juks. 

But  the  task  is  so  great  and  so  costly  that  the  scholars  of 
Europe  can  only  hope  for  its  realization  at  the  hands  of  others. 
Europe  has  indeed  an  army  of  scholars  capable  of  doing  the  work, 
but  it  has  not  the  necessary  means.  Only  the  United  States, 
which  has  both  millionaires  and  scholars,  can  undertake  this 
work, — one  that  will  confound  the  world  by  its  revelations  and 
cover  with  glory  that  greatest  of  democracies.  Let  me  add  that 
I  know  of  nothing  more  noble  than  this  proposed  revelation  of 
the  cradle  of  the  Old  World,  and  I  know  of  no  more  glittering 
coin  in  which  the  New  World  can  pay  its  debt  of  gratitude. 

(Signed)     J.  N.  SVORONOS. 

Kaiserlich  Deutsches  Archaeologisches  Institut, 

Athens,  den  26  Oktober  1910. 
However  much  has  been  accomplished  by  workers  in  Asia 
Minor,  still  its  inexhaustible  soil  would  seem  to  be  hardly 
touched.  It  is  but  natural  therefore  that  I — and  I  may  speak 
equally  for  all  my  colleagues  and  for  our  Institute — welcome 
your  new  scheme  most  cordially.  If  it  is  realised  soon  and  on 
a  large  scale,  you  will  have  a  twofold  cause  for  satisfaction: 
1.  this  important  research  will  link  itself  naturally  to  the 
splendid  and  disinterested  work  which  the  United  States,  more 
than  any  other  nation,  has  for  many  years  devoted  to  the  in- 
tellectual progress  of  Asia  Minor  by  founding  schools  in  remote 
towns;  and  2.  you  may  feel  proud  that  what  other  nations 
have  achieved  by  government  grants — and  surely  these  grants 
and  our  Institutes  are  the  best  proof  of  the  great  importance 
which  all  European  nations  attach  to  such  research — that  this. 


—108— 

in  your  case,  is  obtained  through  the  enlightened  generosity  of 
a  private  citizen. 

If  realised,  your  scheme  will  have  not  only  a  scientific,  but 
also  a  fine  philanthropic  result.  For  it  is  known  only  to  special-- 
ists  how  largely  an  extensive  excavation  contributes  to  the 
well  being  of  the  local  peasantry,  giving  work  to  hundreds  of 
men,  women  and  boys,  raising  the  standards  of  life,  often  caus- 
ing flourishing  villages  to  rise  where  only  a  few  wretched  hovels 
stood  before. 

An  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  on  a  large  scale  would  be  most 
welcome  and  important  to  the  American  School  at  Athens,  and 
let  me  also  say  that  as  the  Turkish  law  concedes  a  part  of  the 
objects  found  to  the  explorers,  your  scheme  would  enrich  the 
American  museums  by  many  valuable  works  of  art. 

(Signed)     GEORG  KARO. 

Ecole  Francaise  d'Athenes, 
(Translation.)  Paris,  5/ii/1911. 

The  first  letter  addressed  to  me  at  Athens  perhaps  remained 
at  Athens,  or  was  lost  between  Greece  and  France.  But  I  am 
not  without  some  knowledge  of  your  project  for  archaeological 
research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  for  I  have  heard  it  mentioned 
sympathetically  by  several  of  my  colleagues  here  in  Paris  and 
in  particular  by  my  eminent  friend  M.  Sal.  Reinach.  As  far  as 
I  am  informed  of  the  project  thus  indirectly  I  cannot  but  rejoice 
at  it  and  give  my  full  endorsement.  I  have  myself  travelled 
over  a  large  part  of  Asia  Minor,  and  I  do  not  need  to  tell  you 
of  the  part  our  School  at  Athens  took  for  long  years  in  the  ex- 
ploration of  that  country ;  and,  moreover,  I  earnestly  hope  that 
we  may  again  be  able  to  undertake  work  there.  My  personal 
experience  and  my  familiarity  with  the  work  done  there  by  my 
predecessors  have  convinced  me  that  a  very  great  effort  must 
be  made  in  Asia  Minor ;  all  the  nations  of  the  Occident  could  or 
ought  to  work  together  there;  and  it  would  seem  to  me  most 
desirable  that  the  work  be  undertaken  without  delay.  I  take 
great  pleasure  in  telling  you  that  in  any  case  you  can  count  on 
our  hearty  encouragement  in  the  proposed  scientific  campaign. 

(Signed)     M.  HOLLEAUX, 
Directeur  de  Tficole  Francaise  d'Athenes. 


—109— 

British  Archaeological  School, 

Athens,  Nov.  20,  1910. 

I  am  much  interested  in  the  prospect  of  such  a  scheme  for  the 
exploration  of  Asia  ]\Iinor  and  Sj^ria.  "Where  so  much  is  to  be 
done,  there  can  be  no  question  of  interference  with  other  na- 
tions. It  has  been  becoming  increasingly  plain  of  recent  years 
that  the  key  to  many  archaeological  and  historical  problems  lies 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria; — the  Hittites,  the  Etruscan  question, 
the  languages  of  Asia  Minor  and  their  bearing  upon  Crete  and 
the  Aegean  races,  early  Christian  architecture,  comparative 
philology.  Light  on  all  these  points  will  come  from  this  work 
and  I  am  most  anxious  it  should  be  prosecuted.  Lydian  inscrip- 
tions now  found  in  Sardes  by  your  countrymen  are  an  earnest 
of  what  is  to  come.  A  work  which  will  illuminate  so  many  prob- 
lems of  early  history  and  civilization  needs  no  defense  from  the 
point  of  view  of  archaeology  and  humanism.  It  is  the  thing 
which  we  now  need  more  than  anything  else. 

If  the  history  of  the  human  race  is  of  any  value  to  our  civili- 
zation, then  this  work  is  of  value  and  deserves  all  the  support  it 
can  get.  I  heartily  hope  that  the  petition  may  be  successful  and 
if  at  any  time  I  can  be  of  any  help  in  any  way,  I  shall  be  very 
pleased.  (Signed)     R.  M.  DAWKINS. 

R.  Scuola  Archaeologica  Italiana  in  Atene, 
(Translation.)  Atene,  25  octobre  1910. 

The  idea  of  large  archaeological  and  historical  researches  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  conducted  by  first-class  scientific  experts 
and  with  the  ample  means  that  abounding  American  wealth  is 
fortunately  able  to  place  at  the  disposal  of  the  excellent  Ameri- 
can scientists, — such  an  idea  can  find  only  sympathy  and  en- 
couragement on  the  part  of  all  scholars.  And  I  gladly  join  those 
who  support  the  project. 

(Signed)     LUIGI  PERNIER. 

Institut  Archeologique  Russe  a  Constantinople, 

Constantinople,  Nov.  10,  1910. 
Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  systematic  and  detailed  research 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  an  expression  of  a  now  ripened  scien- 


■110— 


tific  necessity  as  well  as  the  achievement  of  a  noble  idea  of  a 
scientific  brotherhood. 

I  have  made  several  journeys  to  Syria  and  Asia  and  I  can 
bear  witness  that  scientific  investigations  there  will  bring  rich 
results  of  intense  interest  and  great  value  to  general  culture. 
Though  my  personal  sympathies  are  chiefly  turned  to  the 
Christian  epoch,  more  especially  to  the  Byzantine  middle  ages, 
it  is  quite  possible  that  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  present  as  great  an 
interest  in  regard  to  prehistoric  culture  and  ethnographic  re- 
lations between  Asia  and  Europe. 

(Signed)     THEODORE  USPENSKY. 

Robert  College,  Constantinople, 

Boston,  Jany.  21,  1911. 
I  have  known  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for  many  years  as  a 
gentleman,  a  scholar,  an  explorer,  an  archaeologist  and  a 
teacher.  I  was  well  acquainted  with  his  work  in  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria,  and  when  he  left  this  work,  I  felt  that  it  was  a  great 
loss  to  the  world.  I  am  glad  to  know  that  he  is  now  willing  to 
take  it  up  again,  and  hope  most  sincerely  that  provision  can  be 
made  for  the  thorough  and  long  continued  exploration  of  Asia 
Minor.  Much  has  been  done  already  by  European  scholars,  but 
far  more  remains  to  be  done  and  we  Americans  ought  to  do  our 
part  of  it. 

I  take  great  satisfaction  in  commending  this  project  of  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  the  time  is  now  specially 
favorable  for  undertaking  it. 

( Signed )     GEORGE  WASHBURN, 

President  Emeritus  of  Robert  College. 

Endorsement  of  English,  Scotch,  and  Irish  Universities. 

Queen's  College, 

Oxford,  8  Dec.  1910. 
It  really  seems  superfluous  for  me  to  say  anything  in  com- 
mendation of  a  scheme  the  merits  of  which  are  so  evident  and 
which  already  has  such  distinguished  support.     There  is  per- 
haps no  region  where  systematic  exploration  and  excavation 


—Ill- 
are  now  more  pressing  and  more  rich  in  promise  than  in  Asia 
Minor.    In   furthering   such   an   undertaking   the    promoting 
institution  would  earn  the  gratitude  of  all  who  care  for  the 
advance  of  knowledge. 

(Signed)     A.  S.  HUNT. 

Queen's  College,  Oxford, 

Nov.  11,  1910. 
The  most  important  field  for  archaeological  exploration  that 
aAvaits  us  at  present  is  Asia  Minor;  we  now  know  that  it 
formed  the  bridge  by  which  a  large  part  of  the  civilisation  and 
culture  of  Asia  was  carried  to  Europe,  and  the  key  to  some  of 
the  most  important  problems  in  the  history  of  civilisation  lies 
buried  there.  Hitherto  we  have  been  able  to  do  little  more  than 
explore  the  surface  of  the  country,  and  how  much  remains  to 
be  done  even  in  this  respect  is  known  to  none  better  than  to 
yourself;  what  is  now  urgently  needed  is  excavation,  more 
especially  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  peninsula.  The  moment  is 
favorable,  for  the  new  government  in  Turkey  is  alive  to  the 
importance  of  learning  something  about  the  older  history  of  the 
empire  and  preserving  the  monuments  of  the  past,  and  the  hin- 
drances to  exploration  which  formerly  existed  have  been  re- 
moved. 

(Signed)     A.  H.  SAYCE. 

Oxford,  11  November  1910. 
Of  all  the  regions  now  accessible  to  exploration,  and  as  yet 
incompletely  covered,  Asia  Minor  presents  the  highest  prospects 
of  striking  and  valuable  results.  We  have  there  now  the  assur- 
ance of  a  range  of  time  only  less  vast  than  that  offered  by 
Egypt  and  Babylonia,  in  which  to  watch  the  development  and 
decline  of  successive  human  civilizations  under  the  same  geo- 
graphical conditions.  These  geographical  conditions  them- 
selves, meanwhile,  present  wide  contrasts  and  variations  locally 
within  the  same  region,  and  it  is  therefore  possible  to  study  geo- 
graphical distributions  of  human  efforts,  social,  industrial,  and 
political,  under  exceptionally  favorable  circumstances.     For  the 


—112— 

comparative  study  of  civilizations  therefore,  and  for  the  effects 
of  repeated  immigration  in  particular,  the  closer  study  of  the 
history  and  antiquities  of  Asia  Minor  and  North  Syria  is  es- 
sential to  our  progress  at  the  present  stage.  It  may  be .  ex- 
pected to  give  real  knowledge  of  the  modes  in  which  nationali- 
ties and  civilizations  are  formed,  and  of  the  selective  and  con- 
trolling influence  of  geographical  conditions  upon  new  peoples. 

I  lay  great  stress  on  this  broad  general  aspect  of  research  in 
Asia  Minor,  because  this  is  the  side  of  it  which  makes  the  most 
general  appeal  to  the  statesman,  and  the  man  of  the  world.  But 
I  should  like  also  to  say  how  vitally  important  these  researches 
are  to  the  more  special  study  of  the  spread  of  Greek  culture 
in  the  period  after  Alexander  the  Great;  the  clearest  and  most 
remarkable  instance  in  history  of  the  rapid  and  permanent 
spread  of  a  living  system  of  ideas  over  a  large  external  area ; 
and  consequently  one  of  the  most  important  periods  of  history 
for  the  student  of  institutions  and  of  thought.  Professor  Ster- 
rett  himself,  who  has  taken  such  active  part  in  the  collection  of 
the  evidence,  and  in  the  study  of  the  original  documents  so  col- 
lected by  exploration  is  best  able  to  testify  to  the  scientific  value 
of  the  results;  and  also  to  the  large  amount  of  work  which  still 
remains  to  be  done  on  similar  lines.  I  cannot,  indeed,  conceive 
any  branch  of  the  human  sciences  which  would  better  repay,  by 
immediate  and  applicable  returns,  the  appropriation  of  a  con- 
siderable sum  for  research  in  the  field.  I  should  only  urge  that 
any  expedition  should  be  well  equipped  for  the  study  of  the 
physical  conditions  of  soil,  climate,  and  natural  products,  as 
well  as  for  the  collection  and  (if  necessary)  excavation  of  the 
archaeological  material. 

The  present  conditions  of  Asiatic  Turkey  are  as  is  known 
unusually  favorable  to  such  exploration ;  and  I  am  sure  that  due 
weight  should  be  given  to  this  consideration  of  urgency.  We 
have  to  take  these  opportunities  as  they  come ;  and,  if  we  miss 
them,  they  do  not  always  recur. 

(Signed)     JOHN  L.  ]\IYRES, 

Wykeham  Professor  of  Ancient  History  in  the  University  of 
Oxford. 


—113— 

Exeter  College,  Oxford. 

I  venture  to  write  expressing  my  warm  sympathy  and  my 
earnest  hope  that  so  brilliantly  conceived  a  project  may  be  ade- 
quately endowed.  I  am  convinced  that  under  the  leadership  of 
so  tried  an  explorer  as  Dr.  Sterrett  such  an  undertaking  will  be 
of  the  highest  interest  and  profit  for  all  students  of  the  ancient 
Mediterranean  Culture. 

(Signed)  LEWIS  R.  FARNELL,  D.  Litt. 

F.  A.  S.,  Senior  Tutor  and  Fellow  of  Exeter  College,  Oxford 
University  Lecturer  in  Classical  Archaeology.  Corresponding 
Member  of  the  German  Imperial  Archaeological  Institute.  Au- 
thor of  the  ''Cults  of  the  Greek  States,"  etc. 

Trinity  College,  Oxford,  Nov.  17,  1910. 
There  can  be  no  project  more  interesting  to  the  philological 
and  archaeological  world  than  a  thorough  exploration  of  Asia 
Minor,  and  though  this  branch  of  Greek,  and  to  a  certain  de- 
gree Latin,  Philology,  is  only  incidentally  brought  before  my 
notice,  I  should  consider  it  a  very  fortunate  day  for  the  world, 
if  the  plan  your  letter  and  the  printed  accompaniment  suggest 
could  be  carried  out  effectively,  i.  e.,  with  thoroughly  adequate 
pecuniary  resources  and  under  the  guidance  of  so  experienced  a 
leader  as  yourself. 

(Signed)     ROBINSON  ELLIS. 

Oxford,  Nov.  13,1910. 
I  approve  of  your  plan  to  conduct  an  archaeological  expedi- 
tion to  Asia  Minor.  Hittite  investigation  is  especially  important 
for  our  know^ledge  of  the  evolution  of  human  history.  Owing  to 
the  great  paleographic  and  linguistic  difficulties  in  the  decipher- 
ment of  Hittite,  new  material  will  be  especially  welcome. 

(Signed)     STEPHEN  LANGDON, 
Shillito  Professor  of  Assyriology,  Oxford. 


—114— 

University  of  Oxford, 

Oxford,  16  Nov.,  1910. 

I  write  to  express  my  cordial  sympathy  with  the  application 
which  is  being  made  to  enlightened  men  of  wealth  for  sub- 
stantial aid  to  the  conduct  of  archaeological  and  historical  re- 
search in  Asia  Minor,  and  my  hope  that  this  aid  will  not  only  be 
given,  but  will  be  given  under  such  conditions  of  permanence 
as  will  enable  the  work  to  be  organised  on  a  satisfactory  foot- 
ing and  continued  for  a  generation  at  least  to  come. 

With  regard  to  its  importance,  and  the  great  value  of  the  re- 
sults which  may  be  confidently  expected  from  it,  there  is  nothing 
to  add  to  the  opinions  which  have  already  been  expressed  by  the 
experts  who  are  most  competent  to  judge.  I  may  allude,  how- 
ever, in  -passing  to  one  thing  which  must  appeal  to  the  whole 
modern  world  and  not  to  scholars  only,  that  is,  to  the  light  which 
is  already  being,  and  may  be  much  more  largely,  throwii  on  the 
modern  problems  of  town-planning  by  investigations  of  the  man- 
ner in  which  analogus  problems  were  dealt  with  in  Asia  Minor 
under  the  Greek  and  Graeco-Eoman  civilizations.  Nor  will  the 
work  be  without  high  importance  in  enlarging  our  knowledge 
and  quickening  our  appreciation  of  the  whole  ancient  world — 
in  its  thought  and  art  as  well  as  in  its  life  and  organization — 
from  which  our  own  modern  world  traces  its  direct  descent ; 
since  without  understanding  of  the  past  it  is  impossible  to 
understand  and  to  deal  practically  with  the  present,  or  to  make 
confident  provision  for  the  future. 

(Signed)     J.  W.  MACKAIL. 


Baliol  College,  Oxford,  Nov.  27,  1910. 
I  shall  be  obliged  if  you  will  add  my  name  to  the  petitions  to 
endow  an  expedition  for  research  and  excavation. 

(Signed)     J.  L.  STRACHAN-DAVIDSON, 

Master  of  Baliol  College. 


—US- 
Cambridge,  6  December  1910. 
I  earnestly  hope  that  the  petition  for  a  grant  for  the  pur- 
pose of  carrying  on  systematic  archaeological  exploration  in 
Asia  Minor  may  be  successful,  and  that  it  may  receive  a  liberal 
grant  for  a  work,  which,  if  adequately  supported,  would,  I  have 
no  doubt,  make  additions  of  the  greatest  interest  and  import- 
ance to  our  knowledge  of  the  early  history  and  civilizations  of 
Western  Asia. 

(Signed)     J.  G.  FRAZER. 


King's  College, 
Cambridge,  Nov.  13,  1910. 
I  welcome  with  joy  the  news  that  there  is  at  least  a  pros- 
pect of  a  well  organised  Exploration,  with  a  substantial  fund 
behind  it,  of  the  lands  of  Asia  Minor,  that  great  meeting-place 
of  so  many  famous  and  important  civilisations.  I  earnestly 
hope  that  the  project  may  be  realised;  for  of  all  the  enterprises 
which  it  will  be  the  duty  of  archaeological  science  to  undertake, 
it  is,  I  think,  the  most  PRESSING.  Much  irretrievable  time  has 
already  been  lost.  Numerous  priceless  stones,  w^hich  would  have 
furnished  keys  to  historical  problems,  existed  fifty  years  ago  and 
have  now  disappeared.  This  process  of  destruction  is,  I  believe, 
advancing  more  rapidly  now,  and  every  year  of  delay  may  mean 
the  loss  of  invaluable   records. 

The  student  of  ancient  Greek,  or  Roman,  or  Byzantine,  or 
Seljuk  history  is  pulled  up  at  every  moment  by  the  obscurities 
of  the  geography  of  Asia  Minor.  No  one  who  has  the  work  of 
Ramsay  so  constantly  at  hand,  as  I  have,  can  fail  to  be  enthusi- 
astic in  acknowledging  all  that  he  has  done  to  illuminate  the 
darkness.  But  though  his  genius,  enterprise,  and  courage  have 
achieved  wonders,  the  field  is  so  vast,  and  the  problems  so 
many,  that  nothing  short  of  work  on  the  scale  you  contemplate 
will  sufiice.  Excavations  must  come,  but  surface  discovery,  to 
rescue  the  data  of  archaeological  monuments  and  to  construct 
adequate  maps,  is  what  is  really  urgent. 

(Signed)     J.  B.  BURY. 


—116— 

Gonville  and  Caius  College, 

Cambridge,  8  Nov.  1910. 
There  is  in  Asia  Minor  a  rich  harvest  to  be  garnered,  and 
until  its  soil  has  been  thoroughly  investigated,  we  shall  never 
be  in  a  position  to  form  adequate  judgments  upon  the  early  his- 
tory of  Man  in  those  very  regions  where  our  race  made  so  many 
of  its  earliest  steps  towards  civilisation.  I  would  that  we  could 
impress  upon  the  minds  of  those  who  will  have  the  disposition 
of  the  funds  the  all-important  nature  of  historical  studies. 
Few  yet  realize  what  great  problems  lie  before  the  human  race 
at  no  distant  future,  and  when  the  time  comes  for  the  struggle 
for  existence  of  densely  packed  populations  upon  the  earth's 
habitable  surface,  the  lessons  learned  from  the  experiences  of 
great  races  in  the  past,  the  causes  of  their  success  or  their  down-i 
fall,  will  have  a  far-reaching  practical  value. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  EIDGEWAY. 

Gonville  and  Caius  College, 

Cambridge,  30  Nov.  1910. 
You  are  doing  excellent  service  to  the  cause  of  classical  schol- 
arship and  archaeological  research  in  putting  before  American 
men  of  wealth  and  American  institutions  the  great  import- 
ance of  renewed  archaeological  and  historical  investigations  in 
the  region  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  I  sincerely  hope  that  your 
efforts  will  be  rewarded.  Your  own  previous  investigations  and 
patient  and  fruitful  labour  mark  you  out  as  one  whose  repre- 
sentations should  carry  exceptional  weight  of  advocacy. 

(Signed)     E.  S.  EGBERTS. 
Master  of  Gonville  and  Caius  College ;  late  Vice-Chancellor  of 
the  University;  Editor  of  an  ''Introduction  to  Greek  Epigra- 
phy.- 

St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  14  Nov.,  1910. 
I  cordially  approve  of  the  grand  scheme  for  the  archaeological 
exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  which  has  been  proposed  by  Professor 
Sterrett,  and  has  already  won  the  good-will  of  eminent  archaeol- 
ogists throughout  the  world. 


—117— 

The  project  has  with  perfect  truth  been  described  as  one  of 
world-wide  scope  and  human  interest.  If  adequate  funds  can 
be  provided  for  a  continuous  series  of  years,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  the  results  of  the  proposed  exploration  will  add  much  to 
our  knowledge  of  the  history,  the  art,  and  the  languages  of  the 
successive  inhabitants  of  Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     J.  E.  SANDYS,  LITT.  D, 

Fellow  of  the  British  Academy,  Public  Orator  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Cambridge,  Lane  Lecturer  at  Harvard  (1905),  Author  of 
the  History  of  Classical  Scholarship,  etc. 

Gonville  and  Caius  College, 

Cambridge,  9  Nov.  1910. 
My  life  has  been  given  to  the  study  of  antiquity  and  when  I 
look  back  on  the  progress  of  archaeology  within  my  memory, 
I  am  astounded  by  the  results  which  have  been  attained  with 
the  aid  of  very  limited  resources.  A  completely  new  face  has 
been  put  upon  many  sections  of  the  past  and  great  historical 
vistas  have  been  opened  up  which,  when  I  was  young,  no  one 
dreamed  of.  Every  department  of  history  has  been  affected, 
sacred  as  well  as  profane.  Yet  the  amount  of  work  which 
urgently  needs  to  be  done  is  immense.  All  nations  are  taking 
a  quickened  interest  in  this  kind  of  research.  American  scholars 
have  borne  an  honourable  part  in  exploration,  and  it  is  greatly 
to  be  desired  that  ampler  opportunity  should  be  afforded  to 
them,  by  placing  larger  means  at  their  disposal. 

(Signed)     J.  S.  REID. 

Christ's  College, 
Cambridge,  Nov.  12,  1910. 
I  think  your  proposed  scheme  of  exploration  is  of  the  very 
highest  importance.  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  are  chock  full  of 
ancient  remains.  They  are  empty  of  people,  and  have  been  so 
for  centuries.  Hence  the  work  is  easier.  But  they  will  not  long 
be  so.  Population  must  soon  flock  into  those  regions,  so  fer- 
tile and  healthy,  and  only  await  decent  government.  Then  all 
that  is  visible  will  be  used  or  destroj^ed,  and  the  ground  occupied. 


-US- 


It  is  not  only  in  topography  and  history  that  great  discoveries 
may  be  expected.  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  might  not  have  seemed 
likely  places  for  fine  art:  but  the  unequalled  sarcophagi  of 
Sidon  show  that  precious  treasures  may  be  found  anywhere. 

It  is  a  case  for  every  civilized  nation  to  join  in  a  work  of 
world-wide  importance,  at  a  time  of  unique  opportunity. 

(Signed)     W.  H.  D.  ROUSE,  LITT.  D. 

University   of  London,   University   College, 

London,  3  Dec.  1910. 
There  can  be  no  two  opinions  as  to  the  importance  of  the 
work  and  your  exceptional  qualifications  to  carry  it  out.  Much 
has  been  done  by  individual  scholars  with  scanty  or  uncertain 
resources;  but  what  is  now  wanted,  for  real  progress,  is  a 
systematic  and  comprehensive  scheme  such  as  you  suggest,  with 
a  sufficient  subsidy,  guaranteed  for  a  number  of  years,  to  en- 
sure that  it  will  be  carried  out  thoroughly  and  efficiently.  No 
projects  could  be  more  worthy  of  the  support  of  a  Foundation 
commanding  large  funds,  and  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  it  can  be 
carried  out  except  with  such  help ;  I  therefore  think  it  is  movst 
heartily  to  be  commended  to  an  institution  with  a  large  endow- 
ment. (Signed)     ERNEST  A.  GARDNER. 

Cambridge  University, 

Cambridge,  20  Jan.  1911. 
If  it  is  not  too  late,  I  wish  to  express  my  strong  interest  in 
the  proposed  excavations  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  especially  in 
Asia  Minor,  and  I  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett  will  obtain  the 
assistance  sought. 

A.  W.  VERRALL, 
(per  Margaret  de  G.  Verrall). 

King's  College,  Cambridge. 
I  have  just  read  Professor   Sterrett 's   reports    on   proposed 
expeditions  to  Asia  Minor  and  thorough  archaeological  investi- 
gations in  that  country.    Allow  me  to  express  my  opinion  as  to 
the  inestimable  advantages  which  would  be  derived  from  such 


—119— 

work,  especially  if  undertaken  with  ample  means  put  at  the 
disposal  of  competent  men  of  science.  I  feel  no  hesitation  in 
conscientiously  maintaining  that  funds  could  not  be  used  for  a 
fitter  purpose. 

(Signed)     CHAS.  WALDSTEIN, 
Reader  in  Classical  Archaeology  and  Slade  Professor  of  Fine 
Arts  in  the  University  and  Fellow  of  King's  College,  Cambridge. 
Some  time  Director  of  the  American  School  at  Athens. 

University  of  London,  University  College. 

London,  Nov.  16,  1910. 
With  all  the  support  that  your  admirable  scheme  for  making 
available  the  archaeological  treasures  of  Asia  Minor  has  already 
received  it  is  unnecessary  for  me  to  do  more  than  to  say  that  I 
cordially  endorse  all  that  has  been  said,  both  as  to  the  excel- 
lence of  the  project  itself  and  the  need  for  its  speedy  execution. 

(Signed)     J.  P.  POSTGATE. 

The  University  of  Liverpool, 
Institute  of  Archaeology,  Liverpool,  Dec.  7,  1910. 
We  unite  in  expressing  our  earnest  desire  that  the  scheme 
drawn  up  by  Professor  Sterrett  for  the  endowment  of  an 
American  expedition  in  Asia  Minor  may  be  adopted  by  the 
American  expedition  in  Asia  Minor  may  be  adopted  ;  and  that 
the  endowment  may  be  a  generous  one  and  may  be  secured  for 
a  long  term  of  years,  so  that  it  may  be  possible  to  plan  the  work' 
on  a  large  scale  and  to  carry  it  out  in  the  most  careful  and 
scientific  way.  Dr.  Sterrett 's  own  reputation  as  an  explorer 
stands  so  high  as  to  need  no  attestation.  From  personal 
knowledge  some  of  us  can  testify  that  during  recent  years 
many  ancient  monuments  in  Asia  Minor  have  been  destroyed, 
and  that  increasing  prosperity  is  likely  to  hasten  the  process. 
As  travellers  and  excavators  who  have  worked  for  many  years 
in  Egypt,  Greece  and  Asia  Minor,  or  as  teachers  whose  lifework 
has  been  devoted  to  classical  antiquity,  we  believe  that  there  is 
no  more  promising  field  for  systematic  excavation  than  Asiatic 
Turkey,  the  seat  of  ancient  empires  of  which  but  little  is  known. 


—120— 

If  enlightened  men  of  wealth  will  furnish  means  for  a  thorough 
exploration  of  some  of  the  chief  sites  in  this  region  and  for 
adequate  publication  of  the  results,  they  will  make  a  contribu- 
tion of  incalculable  value  to  the  history  of  human  civilisation. 
(Signed)     A.  W.  W.  DALE. 

FRANCIS  PIERREPONT  BARNARD, 
R.  C.  BOSANQUET, 

J.  G.  FRAZER, 

JOHN  GARSTxVNG, 

JOHN  L.  MYRES, 

PERCY  NEWBERRY, 

J.  P.  POSTGATE. 

The  University  of  Manchester, 

Manchester,  December  1st,  1910. 
AVe  are  glad  to  have  the  opportunity  of  supporting  your  im- 
portant and  far-reaching  scheme  for  the  exploration  of  Asia 
Minor.  An  institution  or  men  of  great  wealth  will  indeed 
place  the  whole  civilised  world  in  their  debt  if  they  adequately 
endow  your  expedition.  It  is  unnecessary  for  us  to  emphasize 
the  countless  problems  on  which  such  an  expedition  will  throw 
light.  In  Archaeology,  History,  and  Philology  alike  we  shall 
expect  great  results,  and  we  cannot  foretell  over  what  century 
or  indeed  over  what  millennium  they  are  likely  to  be  most 
fruitful.  The  approval  that  your  scheme  has  already  won  from 
scholars  all  over  the  world,  brings  into  prominence  not  only  its 
importance  on  its  own  merits,  but  also  the  peculiarly  happy 
auguries  under  which  it  will  be  carried  into  effect.  The  un- 
selfish interest  that  the  United  States  have  for  many  years 
taken  in  the  people  of  Asia  Minor  make  it  especially  appropri- 
ate that  it  should  be  the  nation  that  should  undertake  this  new 
and  on  its  own  lines,  equally  beneficent  Mission. 
(Signed)     RONALD  M.  BURROWS, 

JAMES  TAIT, 

T.  F.  TOUT, 

JAMES  HOPE  MOULTON, 

R.  SEYMOUR  CONWAY, 

J.  H.  HOPKINSON. 


—121— 

University  of  Birmingham, 

Nov.  12,  1910. 
We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  University  of  Birming- 
ham, regard  archaeological  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  as 
of  great  importance  in  the  interest  of  classical  studies  and  his- 
toric knowledge. 

(Signed)     C.  REYMOND  BEAZLEY, 
CHARLES  D.  CHAMBERS, 
ROSE  SIDGWICK, 
E.  A.  SONNENSCHEIN, 
ST.  GEORGE  STOCK, 
E.  C.  WORDSWORTH. 

University  of  Bristol, 
Bristol,  Nov.  17,  1910. 
We  have  read  with  sympathy  and  interest  Prof.   Sterrett's 
schemes  for  exploration  in  Asia  Minor,  and  should  warmly  ap- 
prove of  their  being^  aided  by  a  grant. 

(Signed)     F.  BROOKS,  M.  A., 

HORACE  PITMAN,  M.  A., 
ERNEST  SIBREE,  M.  A. 

University  of  Leeds, 

Leeds,  Nov.  16,  1910. 
Your  scheme  of   work    must    command    the    sympathy    of 
scholars  throughout  the  world.    Its  successful  accomplishment 
would  serve  the  best  interest  of  humanity  and  would  do   the 
greatest  credit  to  the  enlightened  enterprise  of  America. 
(Signed)     W.  RHYS  ROBERTS. 

University  of  Glasgow, 

Glasgow,  Nov.  26,  1910. 
The  undersigned  members  of  the  staff  of  this  University, 
having  heard  that  it  is  proposed  to  organize  an  expedition  or 
expeditions  to  Syria  and  Asia  Minor  for  the  purpose  of  archae- 


—122— 

ological  research,  desire  earnestly  to  commend  the  proposal  to 
the  consideration  of  any  who  may  be  able  to  support  it.  There 
are  many  sites  of  great  importance  in  those  countries  which 
need  thorough  investigation ;  and  a  full  exploration  of  these,  or 
of  a  considerable  part  of  them,  if  competently  directed,  could 
not  fail  to  produce  results  of  very  great  value  for  the  extension 
of  human  knowledge. 

(Signed)     JAMES  COOPER,  D.  D,  D.  Litt,  D.  C.  L. 
J.  S.  PHILLIMOEE,  M.  A, 
GILBERT  A.  DAVIES,  M.  A., 
WM.  B.  STEVENSON,  D.  Litt.,, 
G.  MILLIGAN,  D.  D, 
H.  G.  LYONS,  Hon.  D.  Sc. 

University  of  St.  Andrews, 
St.  Andrews,  N.  B.,  February  14,  1911. 
The  undersigned  members  of  the  University  of  St.  Andrews 
share  the  lively  expectations  raised  among  scholars  by  the 
prospect  of  systematic  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria. 
The  enterprise,  as  outlined  by  Dr.  Sterrett,  appears  to  be 
planned  with  adequate  skill  and.  energy.  An  important  consid- 
eration in  its  favour  is  the  fact  that  under  the  new  regime  in  the 
Ottoman  Empire  there  is  less  likelihood  of  tedious  opposition  to 
archaeological  research. 

(Signed)     JAMES  DONALDSON,  Principal, 
JOHN  BURNET, 
ALLAN  MENZIES, 
,      W.  M.  LINDSAY, 
D.  M.  KAY, 
R.  K.  HANNAY. 

University  of  Aberdeen, 

Aberdeen,  25  Dec.  1910. 
I  authorize  you  to  add  my  name  to  any  representation  you 
may  be  making  in  the  interest  of  research  in  Asia  Minor   and 
Syria. 

(Signed)     J.  HARROWER. 


—123— 

The  University  of  Dublin, 

Trinity  College,  Dublin,  6.  xii.  1900. 
AVe  desire  to  add  our  earnest  recommendations  to  those  that 
have  already  been  given  in  favor  of  Professor  Sterrett's  project. 
A  subvention  which  would  permit  of  a  systematic  excavation  of 
sites  in  Asia  Minor,  would  beyond  doubt  or  question  add  to  the 
book  of  human  knowledge  pages  of  the  profoundest  interest 
and  importance. 

(Signed)     J.  P.  MAHAFFY, 
R.  Y.  TYRRELL, 
LOUIS  C.  PURSER, 
JOHN  I.  BEARE, 
J.  GILBERT  SMYLY, 
W.  A.  GOLIGHER. 


University  of  Dublin, 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Nov.  15,  1910. 

I  am  very  glad  to  add  my  voice  to  the  great  European  chorus 
of  approyal  regarding  your  scheme  of  systematic  excavation  in 
Asia  Minor.  To-day  when  modern  science  is  swallowing  up  all 
the  spare  funds  of  our  Universities,  it  is  of  the  last  importance 
that  the  historical  side  of  human  knowledge,  and  that  which 
ministers  to  real  culture,  should  be  liberally  supported.  The 
scheme  you  propose  is  quite  definite,  and  there  is  no  one  that  I 
know  better  fitted,  by  both  ability  and  special  experience,  to 
carry  it  out  than  you  are.  I  have  now  half  a  century's  experi- 
ence of  these  researches  in  Greece,  Egypt,  and  nearer  Asia,  and 
I  can  conscientiously  say  that  I  have  never  yet  seen  a  scheme 
proposed  which  promises  larger  and  more  brilliant  results.  I 
therefore  earnestly  hope  that  this  noble  investigation  may  be 
placed  on  a  proper  footing. 

(Signed)     J.  P.  MAHAFFY. 


—124— 

University  of  Dublin, 

Dublin,  Nov.  9,  1910. 
It  will  give  me  much  pleasure  to  do  what  I  can  for  the  further- 
ance of  the  cause  in  which  you  have  laboured  with  such  dis- 
tinguished success,  and  in  which  all  Hellenists  and  Humanists 
throughout  the  world  should  take  a  lively  interest. 

(Signed)     JOHN  I.  BE  ARE. 


The  Queen 's  University  of  Belfast, 

Belfast,  Nov.  13,  1910. 
I  have  the  strongest  sympathy  with  your  project  for  archaeol- 
ogical research.  I  think  if  Americans  of  great  wealth  knew  of 
the  immense  promise  of  that  field,  the  way  in  which  archaeo- 
logical'study  is  hampered  for  want  of  funds  and  the  importance 
of  it  for  a  true  knowledge  of  the  classical  past,  they  would 
assent  to  your  request. 

(Signed)      S.  DILL. 


London,  18  Dec.  1910. 

I  entirely  endorse  all  that  Professor  Sterrett  says  of  the  im- 
mense importance  of  exploration  in  the  whole  of  this  district. 
It  is  full  of  unsolved  problems,  all  of  the  most  vital  significance 
alike  for  classical  and  prehistoric  archaeology,  for  ethnology, 
history,  and  geography.  A  systematic  investigation,  conducted 
with  adequate  funds,  could  hardly  fail  to  produce  scientific  re- 
sults of  unique  value.  Even  in  a  part  of  the  country  which  is  so 
comparatively  well  known  as  the  Troad,  an  enquiry  which  I 
have  lately  been  carrying  on  shews  so  many  serious  problems 
still  unsolved,  that  I  am  myself  planning  a  short  journey  there 
next  year,  in  the  belief  that  fresh  light  may  be  thrown  on  vari- 
ous aspects  of  the  Homeric  problem. 

(Signed)     WALTER  LEAF. 


—125— 

Saundersfoot,   Pembrokeshire, 

Dee.  13,  1910. 
I  have  much  pleasure  in  endorsing  Professor  Sterrett's  ap- 
peal to  enlightened  Americans  of  great  wealth  for  assist- 
ance in  prosecuting  archaeological  and  historical  research  in 
Asia  Minor.  His  own  work  in  this  field,  as  well  as  that  of  others 
whose  names  I  am  glad  to  see  amongst  the  supporters  of  the 
scheme  (such  as  Sir  W.  M.  Ramsay  and  Mr.  Hogarth)  have 
shown  not  only  what  can  be  done,  but  how  much  remains  to 
be  done,  and  that  without  delay,  in  view^  of  the  constant  de- 
struction of  ancient  monuments  in  Asia  Minor.  Professor 
Sterrett  rightly  insists  on  the  need  of  assurance  that  funds  for 
excavation  and  travel  will  be  continuously  forthcoming  for  a 
considerable  number  of  years ;  and  this  assurance  is  just  what 
American  wealth  is  eminently  able  to  furnish. 

(Signed)     H.  STUART  JONES. 

The  University  of  Melbourne,  Australia, 

Melbourne,  Oct.  20,  1910. 
As  representing — I  venture  to  think — the  opinion  of  classical 
and  archaeological  scholars  in  this  part  of  the  world,  I  unre- 
servedly support  the  petition  of  Professor  Sterrett.  My  own 
studies  have  taught  me  that  it  is  chieflly  to  exploration  of  the 
kind,  and  in  the  places,  suggested  by  him  that  we  must  look 
for  an  enlightenment  for  which  we  are  all  most  eager.  The 
results  of  recent  researches  within  the  Hellenic  sphere  have 
opened  new  and  rather  startling  chapters  in  the  history  of  the 
Mediterranean  world,  and  such  work  as  has  been  performed, 
however  unsystematically  and  incompletely,  in  Asia  Minor,  has 
not  only  yielded  much  information  of  the  highest  importance, 
but  has  aroused  the  highest  expectations  of  far-reaching  dis- 
coveries to  come.  When  the  governments  of  some  of  the  most 
civilised,  and  yet  most  practical,  nations  have  lent  material  as- 
sistance to  smaller  explorations,  we  may  be  sure  that  the  work 
is  regarded  as  rich  in  human  interest  and  likely  to  offer  solid  in- 
tellectual returns.    If  the  study  of  the  early  history  of  the  world 


—126— 

and  its  civilisations  is  worth  anything,  that  worth  attaches  in  a 
special  degree  to  this  project.  If  there  is  any  value  in  a  sounder 
understanding  of  the  Old  or  New  Testament,  this  is  the  region 
that  most  obviously  calls  for  investigation.  I  cannot  conceive 
of  any  operations  more  likely  to  bring  new  illumination  to  the 
student — whether  of  Biblical  history,  Hellenic  civilisation  and 
literature,  or  the  secular  history  of  some  thousands  of  years — 
than  those  which  Professor  Sterrett  desires  to  undertake. 

(Signed)     T.  G.  TUCKER,  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Arts. 


Endorsement  of  Italian  Universities. 

University  of  Rome, 

Rome,  5  xii,  1910. 

I  am  so  convinced  of  the  great  utility  of  your  scheme  in  con- 
nection with  the  archaeological  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria,  that  my  first  thought,  as  President  of  the  Archaeological 
Exhibition  to  be  held  in  Rome  next  year,  was  to  despatch  a 
mission  to  Galatia  for  the  reproduction  of  the  temple  of  Augus- 
tus, on  the  walls  of  which  the  Res  Gestae  are  engraved.  And  I 
am  now  busy  rebuilding  here  the  great  structure  from  casts 
taken  on  the  spot.  The  accounts  given  by  the  members  of  the 
mission  of  the  wonders  they  have  seen  on  their  journey,  of  the 
immense  possibilities  for  future  discoveries,  etc.,  make  our  old 
archaeological  mouths  water. 

We  must  remember  that  there  are  left  but  two  countries 
promising  extraordinary  harvest,  at  least  from  my  own  Roman 
point  of  view:  Northern  Africa  (viz.,  Numidia — Mauretania — 
Cyrenaica)  and  Asia  Minor.  The  French  are  taking  good  care 
of  the  first.  An  American  and  an  Italian  mission  are  working 
Cyrenaica.  The  only  spare  field,  and  a  magnificent  one  indeed, 
is  Asia.  Let  me  hope  that  you  may  succeed  in  your  scheme.  It 
is  not  one  of  American  interest  alone :  it  concerns  the  whole  sci- 
entific world. 

(Signed)     PROF.  R.  LANCIANI. 
Regia  Accademia  der  Lincei, 


—127— 

University  of  Rome, 
(Translation.)  Rome,  1  Dec.  1910. 

A  thoroughgoing  archaeological  exploration  of  Asia  Minor 
and  Syria,  as  planned  by  Professor  Sterrett,  is  one  of  the  most 
imperative  needs  of  the  science  of  the  past.  A  whole  series  of 
the  most  important  questions  must  be  solved  in  Asia  Minor, 
and  in  the  very  first  instance,  for  prehistoric  times,  comes  the 
problem  of  the  origin  of  the  Mysian  culture.  Of  scarcely  less 
importance  is  the  elucidation  of  ethnographical  relations.  We 
may  be  certain  that  systematic  excavations  will  bring  us  a  host 
of  inscriptions  in  the  native  languages  of  the  peninsula.  For 
the  Seleucid  epoch  also,  about  which  we  still  know  very  little 
in  detail,  we  might  expect  richly  illuminating  results ;  in  point 
of  fact  the  chief  capitals  of  the  Seleucid  empire,  Antioch  on  the 
Orontes  and  Seleucia  on  the  Tigris,  have  never  been  methodic- 
ally investigated.  The  promoters  of  the  plan  would  do  a 
great  and  an  ever-lasting  service  to  science,  if  they  would  make 
such  an  expedition  possible. 

(Signed)    KARL  JULIUS  BELOCH. 
Regia  Accademia  dei  Lincei. 


University  of  Rome,  Sapienza, 
(Translation.)  Rome,  30  November  1910. 

There  is  no  one  who  is  active  in  the  broad  domain  of  archaeol- 
ogical science  who  will  not  hail  your  project  with  enthusiasm. 
The  existence  of  an  Institution  for  the  acquisition  of  knowledge 
which  makes  it  possible  to  apply  considerable  resources  to  a 
purely  scientific  enterprise,  and  the  existence  also  of  men,  who, 
equipped,  as  you  are,  with  courage,  energy,  and  a  rich  experience 
are  willing  to  devote  their  lives  to  this  undertaking,  is  such  a 
unique  coincidence,  that  it  would  be  a  really  irreparable  loss,  if 
such  an  opportunity  were  allowed  to  pass  by  unused. 

Perhaps  nowhere  else  is  there  a  more  magnificent  field  for  re- 
search into  human  history  than  Asia  Minor,  where  from  the 
earlier  millennia  one  civilization  has  followed  another  civiliza- 
tion in  an  unbroken  series;  where  they  mutually  postulate,  in- 


—128— 

fluence,  and  illustrate  each  other.  And  nowhere  can  archae- 
ology set  to  work  on  a  larger  scale  than  in  Asia  Minor,  where 
history  speaks  almost  exclusiv^y  from  monuments,  inscriptions, 
works  of  art  of  every  kind,  and  from  the  peculiarity  of  the  very 
soil. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  your  plan  of  combining  sys- 
tematic surface  research  with  excavations  is  the  only  correct 
one.    In  my  opinion  the  two  cannot  be  separated. 

(Signed)     EMANUEL  LOEWY. 

University  of  Bologna, 
Regia  Sopraintendenza  agli  Scavi  e  ai  Musei  Archeologici  in 

Bologna, 
(Translation.)  Bologna,  5  dicembre  1910. 

AYe  express  our  earnest  hope  that  the  plan  of  exploring  Syria 
and  Asia  Minor  with  rigorous  topographical  method  may  be 
carried  into  effect.  That  region,  which  up  to  the  present  has 
only  been  explored  partially  and  with  interruptions,  certainly 
conceals  remains  of  antiquity  and  treasures  of  art,  which,  if 
revealed  to  science,  will  make  precious  contributions,  not  only 
to  the  history  of  those  countries,  but  also  to  that  of  the  Occi- 
dent. We  cannot  conceal  the  particular  interest  Italy  would 
have  in  the  discovery  in  Asia  Minor  of  the  traces  of  the  ancient 
people  to  whom  classical  tradition  attributed  a  Lydian  origin, 
and  who  developed  in  the  heart  of  the  peninsula  an  advanced 
civilization,  whose  monuments  are  the  subject  of  so  many 
serious  controversies. 

Italian  students  of  antiquity  expect,  however,  that  from  those 
countries  will  finally  come  the  light  which  will  clear  up  the 
mystery  of  the  origin  of  the  Etruscans.  And  the  ALMA 
MATER  STUDIORUM  applauds  the  scholarly  initiative  of 
Professor  Sterrett  and  is  confident  that  Americans  of  great 
wealth  will  be  willing  to  aid  the  realization  of  the  grand  and 
noble  work. 
(Signed)     VITTORIO  PUNTONI,  Rettore  dell'  Universita, 

FRANCESCO   LORENZO   PULLe,    Preside    della 
Facolta  di  Filosofia  e  Lettere, 


—129— 
GIUSEPPE  ALBINI, 


I.  BENVENUTO  SUPINO, 

ALFKEDO  TROMBETTI, 

GHERARDO  GHIRARDINI,  Direttore  del    Museo 

Civico, 
AUGUSTO  NEGRIOLI,  Ispettore  del  Museo  Civico, 
PERICLE  DONATI,  Doeente  di  Areheologia. 

University    of   Naples, 
(Translation)  Rome,  18  Ottobre  1910. 

I  am  convinced  that  nothing  but  a  large  and  systematical  ex- 
ploration of  that  vast  and  important  region  can  give  us  the 
materials,  now  lacking,  for  studying  from  every  point  of  view 
questions  whose  very  existence  the  excavations  already  under- 
taken have  but  begun  to  make  us  suspect.  If  'Dr.  J.  R.  S.  Ster- 
rett  succeeds  in  calling  into  existence  an  expedition  for  the  ex- 
ploration of  Asia  Minor,  he  will  have  succeeded  in  bringing 
about  one  of  the  most  useful  and  splendid  scientific  enterprises, 
of  our  century,  to  the  infinite  advantage  of  science. 

(Signed)    ETTORE  PAIS, 

University  of  Pisa 
Gabinetto  di  Areheologia  della  Regia  Universita^ 
(Translation)  Pisa,  8.  xii.  10 

To  all  archaeologists  and  to  all  students  of  antiquity  Profes- 
sor Sterrett's  project  is  of  consuming  interest,  because  it  prom- 
ises to  add  to  our  knowledge  of  the  Mediterranean  civilizations ; 
it  is  of  still  greater  interest  for  us  Italians  in  view  of  the  light 
which  excavations  have  thrown  upon  Aegean  antiquities;  it  is 
welcome  particularly  in  Tuscany,  where  it  is  hoped  that  the 
expedition  may  make  some  contribution,  even  if  it  be  a  negative 
one,  towards  a  solution  of  the  vexed  question  of  the  Etruscans^ 
Professor  Sterrett's  very  plan,  which  is  the  result  of  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  country,  and  his  great  ability  as  an  explorer,  if 
backed  by  the  necessary  funds,  guarantee  success. 

(Signed)     DR.  LUCIO  MARIANI. 
Regia  Accademia  dei  Lincei, 


■ISO- 


University  of  Pisa, 
Facolta  di  Filosofia  e  Lettere, 

Pisa,  addi  14,  xii,  1910. 
The  undersigned,  Professors  in  the  University  of  Pisa,  concur 
with  Dr.  Lucio  Mariani  in  the  above  statement. 

(Signed)     VINCENZO  COSTANZI, 
CARLO  FORMICHI, 
DONATO  JAJA, 
ALESSANiDRO  TARTARA, 
ARTURO  SOLARI, 
CLEMENTE  MERLO, 
LEANDRO  BIADENE, 
CARLO  ERRERA, 
AUGUSTO  MANCINI, 
FRANCESCO  ZAMBALDI. 


University  of  Pavia, 

Gabinetto  di  Archeologia, 
(Translation.)  Pavia,  23  novembre  1910. 

We  endorse  the  project  for  archaeological  and  historical  re- 
rearch  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  proposed  by  Professor  Sterrett. 
We  are  all  the  more  interested  in  the  matter  because  the  pro- 
posed researches  also  have  to  do  with  epochs  most  important  for 
the  study  of  the  Middle  Ages. 

(Signed)     GIOVANNI  CANNA, 
GIACINTO  ROMANO, 
GIOVANNI  NICCOLINI, 
EGIDIO  GORRA, 
PIER  ENEA  GUARNERIO, 
CARLO  PASCAL, 
VITTORIO  CIAN, 
GIOVANNI  PATRONI. 


—131— 

British  School  of  Rome, 

Rome,  Dec.  4,  1910. 
The  importance  of  archaeological  and  historical  research  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  can  hardly  be  overestimated,  and  in  it 
scholars  of  all  nations  have  cooperated  in  the  past,  and  will  in 
the  future.  You  inform  me  that  Sir  W.  M.  Ramsay  is  in  hearty 
sympathy  with  your  scheme,  and  would  take  an  active  part  in 
it.  I  could  wish  for  no  better  guarantee;  and  I  cordially  ex- 
press a  hope  that  your  efforts  may  be  successful. 

(Signed)     THOMAS  ASHBY, 
Director  of  the  British  School  at  Rome. 

Ecole  Francaise  de  Rome, 
(Translation.)  Rome,  le  14  Janvier  1911. 

I  should  have  been  one  of  the  first  to  welcome  Professor 
Sterrett's  skilful  and  discriminating  plan;  for  I  too,  even  I, 
have  ranged  the  mountains  of  Asia  Minor,  though  'tis  long  ago, 
and  I  preserve  as  precious  treasures  my  recollections  of  that 
country.  I  come  late,  but  my  enthusiasm  is  not  less  than  that  of 
others.  For  so  much  of  the  past  of  Man,  so  many  of  the  roots 
of  our  civilization  lie  buried  in  the  soil  of  that  old  land !  And 
it  is  so  imperatively  necessary  to  save  for  history  all  that  is  left 
of  those  records ! 

The  Turks  are  undergoing  a  new  birth,  their  country  is  being 
opened  to  commerce  and  the  industries  !  According  to  a  fateful 
law  the  march  of  modern  progress  will  soon  annihilate  the  rec- 
ords of  the  past,  unless  we  make  haste  to  forbid  it. 

There  is  no  scientific  task  more  worthy  of  American  wealth 
and  American  initiative.  In  placing  Mr.  Sterrett  at  the  head  of 
the  enterprise,  the  Americans  will  have  confided  the  leadership 
to  a  man  who  has  abundantly  proved  his  ability  in  the  archae- 
ological exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  and  whose  experience  in  this 
kind  of  research  is  universally  appreciated. 

( Signed )     L.  DUCHESNE, 

Directeur  de  I'Ecole  Francaise  de  Rome;  Membre  de  I'lnsti- 
tut  de  France;  Membre  de  I'Academie  Francaise. 


-132- 


American  School  of  Classical  Studies  in  Rome, 

November  20,  1910. 
The  project  of  investigating  Asia  Minor  appeals  to  me  very 
strongly.  I  do  not  know  of  any  piece  of  archaeological  work 
which  would  be  so  likely  to  give  results  of  a  really  significant 
character.  But  the  work  must  be  done  at  once  and  on  a  large 
scale,  if  the  thing  is  to  be  done  at  all.  It  is  a  wonderful  op- 
portunity for  the  trustees  of  any  large  educational  fund,  and 
I  should  think  that  their  very  broadmindedness  would  cause 
this  matter  to  appeal  to  them. 

(Signed)     JESSE  BENEDICT   CARTER. 

Imperial  Austrian  Archaeological  Institute, 
(Translation.) 

Sekretariat-Smyrna,  Smyrna,  28. xi.  1910. 

No  one  acquainted  with  the  facts  will  doubt  to-day  that  in 
Asia  Minor,  the  region  of  the  upper  Euphrates,  and  in  Syria 
there  are  problems  confronting  science,  w^hich  must  be  solved 
before  it  will  be  possible  to  understand  those  important  periods 
in  which  the  civilizations  of  the  old  Orient  and  the  Occident 
influenced  or  determined  each  other.  In  this  influence  Asia 
Minor  played  not  merely  the  role  of  a  passive  intermediary  be- 
tween the  Far  East  and  Europe  in  all  the  epochs  in  question — 
the  Hittite,  the  Hellenistic,  the  Early  Christian,  the  Byzantine, 
the  Seljuk — but  it  produced  its  own  civilizations,  some  of  which 
were  most  important  and  pregnant  with  consequences  for  after 
times.  Therefore  every  one  Avould  rejoice  greatly,  if  an  insti- 
tution or  a  man  would  place  at  the  disposition  of  Professor 
Sterrett  the  means  necessary  for  solving  the  problems  men- 
tioned. 

It  strikes  me  that  in  the  execution  of  the  task  a  limited  field 
should  be  undertaken,  even  if  the  most  unlimited  means  be 
granted.  I  can  only  second  the  utterance  of  Th.  Wiegand.  I 
dissent  from  his  views,  however,  in  this  particular,  that  I 
should  not  recommend  Cilicia  as  the  province  to  be  explored 
first,  though  many  arguments  might  be  adduced  therefor.     I 


—133— 

should  advise  the  American  explorers  to  pitch  their  permanent 
camp  in  Eastern  Asia  Minor,  and  to  begin  there  with  numerous 
excavations  and  exhaustive  surface  research,  because  not  only 
can  the  oldest  history  and  the  ethnology  of  Asia  Minor  be 
gained  from  the  monuments  of  the  Hittite  period,  but  also  a 
way  to  the  understanding  of  the  religion  of  Asia  Minor  will  be 
opened  up.  Then,  when  the  culture  of  these  regions  in  the 
varying  epochs — by  no  means  omitting  the  Early  Christian  and 
Byzantine  epochs — shall  have  become  accurately  known  to  us, 
then,  it  will  be  time  enough  to  let  the  work  radiate  from  its 
centre,  by  way  of  Phrygia  and  Lydia,  to  the  western  seaboard 
and  Europe.  There  are  very  many  problems  in  the  history  of 
art  and  in  the  history  of  religion — to  make  mention  of  only  two 
sciences — ^which  cannot  be  solved  at  present  because  they  can- 
not take  into  account  the  unknown  factor  of  the  culture  of  In- 
terior Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     DR.  JOSEF  KEIL. 

Sekretar  des  k.    osterreichischen  archaeologischen  Institutes 
in  Smyrna. 


Institut  Francais  d'  Archeologie  Orientale  du  Caire,  Egypte, 
(Translated.)  Le  Caire,  le  10  decembre  1910. 

The  realization  of  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  will  have  the 
happiest  consequences  for  history  and  archaeology  in  general, 
in  that  it  will  permit  us  to  study,  before  it  is  too  late,  the  re- 
mains of  the  past,  which  are  threatened  with  annihilation  by 
the  introduction  of  modern  civilization  into  those  countries. 

It  is  in  every  way  to  be  desired  that  effective  support  be 
given  to  this  enterprise,  whose  utility  is  clearly  apparent  to  all 
who  are  interested  in  the  Orient. 

(Signed)     E.  CHASSINAT. 


—134— 

Endorsement  of  Russian  Universities. 

University  of  Moscow, 

Moscow,  Dec.  25,  1910. 
It  has  been  a  very  great  pleasure  for  ns  to  learn  that  Profes- 
sor Sterrett  is  putting  forward  a  scheme  for  systematic  archaeo- 
logical research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  The  historical  prob- 
lems of  which  he  speaks  are  of  the  most  urgent  kind.  It  will  be 
a  memorable  day  in  the  annals  of  our  branch  of  historical 
studies  when  a  great  Institution  or  a  gentleman  of  great  wealth 
adopts  the  project  and  thus  enables  so  distinguished  an  archae- 
ologist as  Professor  Sterrett  to  carry  out  his  plan.  The  Rus- 
sians have  some  special  reasons  for  taking  a  keen  interest  in  the. 
fate  of  the  scheme.  Inter  alia,  a  thorough  exploration  of  the 
antiquities  of  Asia  Minor  may  throw  much  new  light  on  the 
obscure  history  of  the  Russian  Caucasus. 

(Signed)     DR.  SERGEI  SOBOLEWSKY, 
DR.  APOLLO  HRUSKA, 
DR.  NICOLAUS  NOVOSSADSKY, 
DR.  A.  NIKITSKY. 

University  of  Odessa, 

Odessa,  20  Nov.  1910. 

We  join  our  voices  to  those  numerous  and  authoritative  ones 
in  sympathetic  support  of  the  project  formed  by  Professor 
Sterrett  for  a  systematic  study  of  Asia  Minor,  and  we  think  its 
realization  would  be  of  incomparable  importance. 

A  complete,  well-planned,  and  many-sided  study  of  this  im- 
portant country  has  never  been  undertaken.  Research,  having 
in  view  the  study  of  the  past  of  Asia  Minor  throughout  its  en- 
tire history,  from  the  time  of  the  Hittites  down  to  that  of  the 
Crusaders,  would  serve  as  a  school  of  method,  the  good  results 
of  which  would  be  felt  in  all  historical  science. 

We  can  not  help  pointing  out  that  as  inhabitants  of  the  Black 
Sea  coast,  we  are  especially  desirous  of  seeing  Professor  Ster- 
rett's  project  realized,  for  the  beginnings  of  our  own  culture 
are  closely  connected  with  the  fortunes  of  Asia  Minor,  and  from 
their  study  we  may  expect  rich  materials  for  illustrating  the 


—135— 

history  of  our  own  local  culture.  The  realization  of  Professor 
Sterrett's  project  will  bring  invaluable  gains  to  science  and 
high  honour  to  the  Institution  that  will  aid  in  this  new  conquest 
of  scientific  thought. 

(Signed)     E.  von  STERN, 

A.  PAWLOWSKY, 

A.  THOMSON, 

S.  PAPADIMITRIU, 

B.  WARNECKE, 
M.  MANDES. 


Endorsement  of  Spanish  Universities. 

University  of  Madrid, 
Universidad  Central  de  Espana,  Facultad  de  Filosofia  y  Letras. 
(Translation.)  Madrid,  7  de  Diciembre  de  1910. 

We  the  undersigned,  all  Professors  of  the  Faculty  of  Letters 
in  some  one  of  the  sections  that  compose  it,  Philosophy,  Letters, 
and  History,  take  pleasure  in  informing  you  directly  of  the 
resolution  adopted  by  this  Faculty  in  session  assembled  on  the 
30th  of  November  last,  which  literally  transcribed  reads  as 
follows : 

' '  This  Faculty  endorses  with  the  greatest  enthusiasm  the  plan 
for  archaeological  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  which, 
with  the  help  of  a  subvention  for  the  promotion  of  research, 
it  is  proposed  that  the  most  competent  persons  shall  carry  on 
and  continue  for  a  long  time ;  and  at  the  same  time  this  Faculty 
can  do  no  less  than  encourage  the  learned  Professor  Sterrett 
to  persevere  in  so  idealistic  a  plan,  which  will  enable  modern 
scientists  to  solve  a  host  of  problems,  which,  even  after  the 
lapse  of  many  centuries,  are  still  such  enigmas  that  the  history 
and  civilization  of  peoples  of  remote  antiquity  are  inadequately 
known. ' ' 

Those  who  sign  this  communication  reiterate,  here,  that' 
they  join  other  Universities  abroad  in  heartily  endorsing 
the  plan,  and  in  believing  that  the  splendid  thought  will  have 
the  greatest  results  for  culture  and  civilization. 


-136— 


(Signed)     DR.  MARIANO  VISCASILLAS  Y  URRIZA,  Dean, 
DR.  FRANCISCO  FERNANDEZ  Y  GONZALEZ, 
DR.  ANTONIO  GONZALEZ  Y  GARBIN, 
DR.  MIGUEL  MORAY  TA, 

MANUEL  MARIA  DEL  VALLE  Y  CARDENAS, 
MAYOR  GARCIA  MORENO, 
DR.  JUAN  GUTIEIRAS  GARIJO, 
EDUARDO  DE  HINOJOSA, 
CAYO  ORTEGA  MAYOR, 
JUAN  ORTEGA  Y  RUBTO, 
JOSE  ALEMANY, 
MARIO  DAZA  DE  CAMPOS, 
JUAN  CATALINA  GARCIA, 
DR.  ANTONIO  SANCHEZ  MOGUEL, 
JOSE  GILES  Y  RUBIO, 
DR.  ENRIQUE  SOMS  Y  CASTELIN, 
M.  SANZ  BENITO, 
RAMON  MENENDEZ  PIDAL, 
DR.  ELIAS  TORMO, 

DR.  ANDRES  OVEJERO  Y  BUSTUMANTE, 
DR.  ADOLFO  BONILLA  Y  SAN  MARTIN, 
DR.  PIO  ZABALA  Y  LERA, 
DR.  JOSE  ORTEGA  Y  GASSEL, 
DR.  R.  AMADEO  DE  LOS  RIOS, 
DR.  ANDRES  TORRES  RICA, 
DR.  MIGUEL  ASIN, 
DR.  ELOY  BULLON, 
DR.  JOSE  MARIA  CASTILLA, 
JUAN  HUSTADO, 
DR.  EMETERIO  MAZORRIAGA, 
CUALCUIJANO 

University  of  Seville, 
Universidad  Literaria  de  Sevilla, 
(Translation.)  Sevilla,  20  de  Diciembre  1910. 

Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  investigations  in  Syria  and  Asia 
Minor  deserves  the  unreserved  endorsement  of  all  students  of 
archaeology,  history,  or    art,  because    many  questions    as  yet 


—137— 

problematical,  will  be  cleared  up, — questions  that  concern  the 
origin  of  the  eastern  Mohammedan  civilization,  which  is  so 
closely  allied  to  Arabic  art  in  Spain,  particularly  in  Andalousia ; 
and  because  it  will  connote  progress  in  the  knowledge  of  ori- 
ental antiquities,  Hittite,  Greek,  and  Eoman. 

(Signed)     FKANCISCO  PAGES,  Rector, 

FELICIANO  CANDAU, 

FRANCISCO  MURILLO, 

ANTONIO  COLLANTES, 

ANTONIO  BALLESTEROS  Y  BERETTA, 

CLAUDIO  SANS.  ARISMENDI. 


University  of  Seville, 
(Translation.)  Sevilla,  22  de  Diciembre  de  1910. 

In  view  of  my  official  position  as  Rector  of  the  University  it 
gives  me  great  satisfaction  to  reiterate  what  was  said  in  the 
letter  of  the  20th,  a  letter  which  I  found  pleasure  in  signing 
along  with  other  professors  of  the  faculty  of  Philosophy  and 
Letters,  in  the  section  of  History.  Research  in  Syria  and  Asia 
Minor  will  clear  up  many  very  interesting  points  of  history  and 
archaeology. 

(Signed)     FRANCISCO  PAGES, 
El  Rector  de  la  Universidad  Literaria  de  Sevilla. 

University  of  Seville, 
(Translation.)  Sevilla,  22  Diciembre  1910. 

It  was  with  real  enthusiasm  that  I  placed  my  signature  beside 
those  of  my  colleagues  at  Seville.  But  as  Professor  of  Universal 
History,  though  my  attention  is  devoted  chiefly  to  oriental 
studies,  I  must  write  to  applaud  warmly  your  happy  initiative, 
to  encourage  you  in  your  plan,  and  to  assure  you  that  I  shall 
follow  with  most  lively  interest  the  outcome  of  your  undertak- 
ing, and  I  am  at  all  times  ready  to  cooperate,  in  my  modest  way, 
in  a  work  of  such  scientific  importance. 

It  may  be  that  my  sentiments  are  colored  by  my  many  years 


—138— 

of  study,  but  I  must  express  my  opinion  that  the  greatest  duty 
of  humanity  is  to  discover  the  whole  truth  in  regard  to  its 
origin,  in  regard  to  the  sources  of  its  civilization ;  to  open  fully 
the  chest,  all  covered,  as  it  is,  with  the  dust  of  centuries  and  as 
yet  only  half-opened, — the  chest  in  which  without  doubt  there 
lies  preserved  the  larger  part  of  the  sublime  inheritance  which 
ancient  peoples  left  for  us  as  the  fruit  of  their  unceasing  toil — 
an  inheritance  that  makes  for  civilization  and  progress. 

I  congratulate  you  on  your  praiseworthy  initiative;  I  hope 
that  you  will  not  cease  in  your  disinterested  work,  for  which 
historical  science  will  thank  you,  and  I  should  be  grateful  if  you 
would  inform  me  from  time  to  time  in  regard  to  the  state  of  the 
work.  ■  I  know  that  few  can  help  you  less  than  I,  but  few  will  be 
so  keenly,  so  profoundly  interested  in  the  outcome  of  your 
project,  and  in  the  result  which  the  future  reserves  for  the  in- 
vestigations that  will  some  day  be  made. 

(Signed)     FELICIANO  CANDAU. 


University  of  Barcelona, 
Universidad  Literaria  de  Barcelona, 
Facultad  de  Filosofia  y  Letras, 

Barcelona,  1st  December  1910. 
The  undersigned.  Professors  in  the  Faculty  of  Philosophy  and 
Literature  in  the  University  of  Barcelona,  give  their  enthusias- 
tic approval  to  Professor  Sterrett's  plea  for  research  in   Asia 
Minor  and  Syria. 

The  various  and  important  civilizations  which  flourished  in 
those  countries,  and  particularly  in  Asia  Minor,  which  has 
always  been  the  connecting  link  between  Europe  and  Asia,  and 
:he  splendid  results  achieved  by  Dr.  Schliemann  and  other  more 
recent  explorers  lead  us  to  say  that  to  disinter  the  treasures 
which  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  conceal  beneath  their  soil  is  of  the 
greatest  interest  and  of  world-wide  scope  for  Archaeology, 
Epigraphy,  Legislation,  and  for  the  History  of  Culture  in  gen- 
eral.    For  knowledge  gained    by  research    in    those  countries 


139- 


would  rectify  many  opinions  which  are  at  present  accepted  and 
would  fill  many  blanks  which  obstruct  historical  research. 

We,  therefore,  ardently  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett's  plan 
may  be  carried  into  effect^  as  it  really  deserves  to  be,  and  that 
excavations  and  research  may  be  inaugurated  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible. 

(Signed)     DR.  MANUEL  SORIANO, 
DR.  FRANCISCO  BARJAU, 
DR.  MARTINIANO  MARTINEZ, 
DR.  LUIS  SEGALA  Y  ESTALELLA, 
FRANCISCO  NABOT  Y  FORNAS, 
DR.  JOSE  BANQUE. 


-140— 


Endorsement  of  American  Institutions  and  American  Scholars. 

Cornell  University, 

Office  of  the  President. 

I  have  gone  carefully  over  Professor  Sterrett's  Outline  of  a 
Plan  for  the  Exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  and  I  am  moved  to 
write  what  I  think  of  it. 

Of  course  I  know  Professor  Sterrett  well.  I  have  heard  him 
lecture  here  on  the  subject  of  his  archaeological  explorations  in 
Asia  Minor,  and  I  have  the  highest  opinion  of  his  competency 
for  that  work.  Naturally,  therefore,  a  scheme  recommended  by 
him  has  in  my  mind  the  reinforced  argument  of  the  scholar 
behind  it. 

But  even  the  scheme  itself  is  one  which  I  think  should  com- 
mend it  highly  to  endowed  institutions  or  men  of  wealth  and 
culture.  It  is  a  clear  opportunity  to  make  additions  to  human 
knowledge.  And  I  should  confidently  expect  that  the  investiga- 
tions would  throw  a  new  light  on  ancient  geography,  history, 
law,  and  customs,  as  well  as  on  the  early  history  of  Christianity 
in  the  remoter  provinces  of  the  Roman  Empire. 

Professor  Sterrett  explains  very  clearly  that  this  material  is 
rapidly  disappearing.  This  presents  a  consideration  of  great 
force  in  favor  of  immediate  action.  Even  in  the  last  few  years 
materials  known  to  Professor  Sterrett  himself  have  already  dis- 
appeared. What  is  likely  to  happen,  if  the  work  of  investiga- 
tion is  long  postponed,  we  can  readily  imagine. 

This  is  a  species  of  investigation  for  which  any  institution 
whose  sphere  it  is  to  promote  the  acquisition  and  dissemination 
of  knowledge  seems  to  me  peculiarly  adapted  and  to  which 
indeed  it  is  especially  summoned.  Our  government  cannot  un- 
dertake the  work ;  it  is  beyond  the  reach  of  our  colleges,  uni- 
versities and  learned  societies,  and  unless  an  American  institu- 
tion or  Americans  of  great  wealth  can  be  induced  to  supply  the 
funds  for  the  work  of  research,  it  seems  to  me  practically  cer- 
tain that  this  field  of  investigation  cannot  be  cultivated  by 
American  scholars. 


—141— 

I  strongly  endorse  the  scheme.  I  recognize  Professor  Ster- 
rett  's  fitness  for  undertaking  the  work — a  fitness  brought  about 
both  by  extensive  and  accurate  scholarship  and  by  actual  expe- 
rience in  the  work  of  investigation — and  I  earnestly  hope  that 
in  some  way  a  grant  may  be  made  to  enable  him  to  carry  out 
the  explorations  he  proposes. 

(Signed)     J.  G.  SCHURMAN, 

President  of  Cornell  University. 


Cornell  University, 

Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  March  20,  1911. 

The  importance  of  Asia  Minor  as  a  field  of  scientific  explora- 
tion can  scarcely  be  overestimated.  No  part  of  this  territory 
has  yet  been  properly  surveyed,  and  much  of  it  has  not  been 
explored  at  all.  Numerous  monuments  of  the  past  are  likely  to 
exist  still  above  ground.  Discoveries  of  this  kind  are  constantly 
made  by  travelers.  What  is  needed  is  a  systematic  search. 
Under  the  ground  lie  the  remains  of  bygone  civilizations.  The 
finds  at  Boghaz  Keui,  the  capital  of  the  Hittite  empire,  indicate 
what  may  be  expected,  if  careful  excavations  were  undertaken. 
Only  by  long  continued  work,  carried' on  in  a  competent  man- 
ner, at  a  large  number  of  places,  can  we  hope  to  secure  the 
means  of  deciphering  the  Hittite  language  and  of  unravelling 
the  mysterious  history  of  the  Hittites.  Many  centres  of  Urar- 
tian,  Chaldian,  and  Mannaean  life  in  Anatolia,  of  the  Phrygian, 
Lydian,  and  Cilician  empires,  of  Greek  civilization  on  the 
Aegean  and  the  Euxine,  should  be  excavated.  Antiquities 
throwing  light  upon  Persian,  Armenian,  Macedonian,  Roman, 
Byzantine,  Seljuk  and  Osmanli  control  should  be  systematically 
looked  for.  Numerous  sites  of  importance  in  different  periods 
should  be  identified. 

There  is  an  enormous  work  to  be  done  in  Asia  Minor,  promis- 
ing rich  returns.  The  time  has  come  when  it  should  be  done  on 
a  large  scale,  in  the  pursuit  of  a  comprehensive  plan,  with 
ample  means,  adequate  equipment,  and  the  most  approved 
methods.    Much  has  been  accomplished  by  other  nations,  espe- 


—142— 

eially  by  Germany  and  by  the  Turkish  government.  It  would 
be  an  honor  to  America,  if  our  country  would  do  for  Asia 
Minor  what  France  has  done  for  Egypt,  Tunis  and  Algiers. 

The  plan  outlined  by  Professor  Sterrett  deserves  the  most 
careful  consideration  and  the  heartiest  support.  It  is  a  fortu- 
nate circumstance  that  it  is  possible,  at  the  present  time,  to 
begin  so  vast  and  significant  an  enterprise  under  the  leadership 
of  a  man  like  Professor  Sterrett.  His  previous  experience  in 
this  field,  his  familiarity  with  all  the  problems  involved,  his 
ripe  scholarship,  his  sound  practical  judgment,  and  his  abundant 
enthusiasm  combine  to  make  him  the  natural  leader  in  a  work 
that  commands  the  interest  and  sympathy  of  every  Orientalist, 
historian,  and  student  of  antiquity. 

(Signed)     NATHANIEL  SCHMIDT, 

CHAS.  E.  BENNETT, 

GEOKGE  P.  BRISTOL, 

CHARLES  L.  DURHAM, 

LANE  COOPER, 

CHARLES  H.  HULL,  Dean, 

WM.  A.  HAMMOND, 

HENRY  A.  SILL, 

H.  C.  ELMER, 

EUGENE  P.  ANDREWS, 

HORACE  L.  JONES, 

GEORGE  L.  BURR, 

JULIAN  P.  BRETZ, 

J.  HfiBRARD. 

Cornell  University, 

Department  of  Latin. 
I  should  be  surprised  if  any  other  project  for  research  could 
command  the  cordial  unanimity  of  support  which  has  been 
evoked  by  Professor  Sterrett 's  proposal  to  conduct  an  expedi- 
tion of  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  Though  I  have  for 
a  long  time  appreciated  the  splendid  opportunities  afforded  by 
those  lands  for  enriching  our  knowledge  of  the  past,  and 
though  I  have  been    impressed    by    the    great    importance    of 


—143— 

promptness  in  undertaking  the  work,  yet  I  have  been  astonished 
to  see  that  from  every  quarter  has  come  an  almost  immediate 
endorsement  of  Professor  Sterrett's  plans. 

Equally  important  is  Professor  Sterrett's  own  personality.  In 
the  opinion  of  those  who  know  his  special  gifts  for  the  kind  of 
work  he  proposes,  and  who  recall  his  brilliant  achievements  in 
remaking  large  portions  of  the  map  of  Asia  Minor,  the  present 
opportunity  to  secure  his  direction  of  fresh  archaeological  un- 
dertakings in  the  same  quarter  is  one  to  be  taken  advantage  of 
without  delay.  Such  a  chance  is  not  likely  to  offer  itself  again. 
America's  contributions  to  higher  scholarship  and  research 
have  in  the  past  been  so  meagre  that  it  would  be  a  thousand 
pities  to  let  pass  this  unique  opportunity  of  making  invaluable 
additions  to  knowledge  under  the  lead  of  an  American  scholar 
of  proved  capacity. 

CHARLES  E.  BENNETT, 
Lately  President  of  the  American  Philological  Association. 


Cornell  University. 
The  importance  of  the  results  that  would  be  achieved  by  such 
an  exploration,  if  properly  conducted,  can  hardly  be  overesti- 
mated. And  I  doubt  whether  any  man  could  be  found,  either 
in  this  country  or  abroad,  more  admirably  fitted  in  every  way 
to  have  charge  of  such  a  project  than  Professor  Sterrett.  He 
has  had  years  of  experience  in  similar  work  in  the  Orient,  and 
his  publications  embodying  the  results  of  his  explorations  are 
world-renowned.  He  has  now  outlined  a  project  that  promises 
results  in  comparison  with  which  his  earlier  work,  important  as 
that  work  was,  seems  almost  insignificant.  No  one  who  knows 
the  man  doubts  his  ability  to  accomplish  the  results  he  has  in 
view.  In  common  with  all  who  realize  the  importance  to  the 
world  of  the  work  he  has  mapped  out,  I  sincerely  hope  that  the 
funds  necessary  for  its  successful  accomplishment  may  be  made 
available. 

H.  C.  ELMER. 


—144— 

Cornell  University. 
I  have  personally  been  much  impressed  with  the  value  of  the 
scheme  which  Professor  Sterrett  has  in  mind.  Speaking  par- 
ticularly from  the  standpoint  of  physiography,  I  would  say  that 
it  has  long  been  my  opinion  that  study  in  this  region  would 
yield  results  of  the  very  highest  importance.  I  should  consider 
it  a  matter  of  very  great  interest  and  importance  if  such  a 
broad-gauged  plan  as  Professor  Sterrett  has  outlined  could  be 
undertaken.  I  should  be  greatly  surprised  if  such  a  study  did 
not  bring  out  geographical  and  geological  results  of  intense 
interest  and  great  value. 

(Signed)     R.  S.  TARR. 

Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

The  Psychological  Laboratory. 

As  regards  the  fitness  of  Professor  Sterrett  to  conduct  the 
explorations  which  he  has  outlined  there  can,  I  think,  be  no 
shadow  of  doubt.  Professor  Sterrett 's  past  training  and 
achievements,  and  the  thorough  knowledge  and  great  enthusi- 
asm displayed  in  his  present  proposals,  speak  for  themselves. 

As  regards  the  value  of  the  proposed  work  there  can  also,  in 
my  opinion,  be  no  doubt  whatever.  I  have  followed  the  progress 
of  the  science  with  interest,  from  the  outside,  and  I  do  not  think 
any  one  will  dispute  the  contention  that  Asia  Minor  is  by  far  the 
most  promising  ground  for  research  at  present  available. 

Personally,  I  have  two  special  interests  in  the  work.  The  one 
is  that  an  anthropologist  might  do  very  valuable  work  for  com- 
.parative  psychology  by  an  examination  of  the  original  inhabi- 
tants of  Asia  Minor,  who  still  survive  in  a  subordinate  and  de- 
graded state.  I  have  in  mind  such  work  as  has  recently  been 
done  by  Drs.  Rivers  and  Myers  on  the  Cambridge  Anthropo- 
logical Expedition  to  Torres  Straits.  I  should  hope,  that  is, 
"that  the  anthropologist  might  be  a  man  with  psychological 
training. 

I  notice  also  with  great  pleasure,  that  Professor  Sterrett  asks 
for  a  number  of  young  university  men  to  accompany  the  expe- 
dition, so  to  speak,  as  apprentices. 

(Signed)     E.  B.  TITCHENER. 


: ^J 


—145—  -:--g 

Illinois  College, 
Jacksonville,  Illinois. 

The  time  is  now  ripe  for  Americans  to  offer  to  the  world  as- 
brilliant  and  as  lasting  achievements  in  the  sphere  of  the  hu- 
manities and  natural  sciences  as  they  have  in  the  realm  of 
commerce  and  mechanics.  As  Professor  Sterrett  has  set  forth 
in  his  proposition  there  is  nowhere  on  earth  so  vast  and  im- 
portant a  field  for  research  in  those  sciences  that  treat  of  man- 
kind as  the  district  lying  between  the  highlands  of  Persia  and 
the  Mediterranean  Sea.  He  has  called  to  your  attention  the 
obstacles  which  have  prevented  a  careful  scientific  study  of  this 
country  and  the  necessity  of  undertaking  the  work  immediately 
with  full  provision  for  a  long  and  exhaustive  campaign. 

The  United  States  is  in  a  peculiarly  favorable  position  for 
this  task,  for  it  alone  of  the  progressive  nations  of  the  world 
can  go  into  Turkey  free  from  the  suspicion  of  desiring  to  impair 
the  integrity  of  the  Turkish  Empire,  and  so  their  scholars  will 
be  allowed  more  freedom  in  making  exact  surveys. 

It  is  a  matter  of  shame  to  American  scholars  who  have  vis- 
ited the  Orient  to  see  how  important  work  has  suffered  from 
lack  of  sufficient  means  to  carry  it  to  completion.  German  and 
French  scholars  are  provided  by  their  governments  with  means 
to  work  at  their  own  discretion  and  so  their  labors  have  been 
thorough  and  exhaustive.  The  most  serious  handicap  encoun- 
tered by  the  American  scholar  and  scientist  is  the  demand  made 
upon  him  to  produce  something  in  return  for  a  given  amount  of 
support.  Accordingly  his  results  are  generally  abortive  or 
merely  tentative.  Those  who  give  money  for  exploration  and 
excavations  are  prone  to  judge  the  value  of  the  work  done  by 
the  positive  results  in  monuments,  sculpture,  inscriptions,  etc. 
In  science,  however,  the  negative  results  have  an  equal  value, 
and  if  anything  lasting  or  permanent  is  to  be  produced  by 
American  scholarship,  scholars  and  scientists  must  receive  con- 
tinuous loyal  support  whether  their  results  be  positive  or 
negative. 

For  these  reasons  I  respectfully  urge  that  Professor  Sterrett 
be  granted  the  full  assistance  that  he  desires  for  the  accomplish- 


—146— 

ment  of  this  most  important  work.  I  believe  that  a  large 
amount  of  money  should  be  appropriated,  for  there  is  no  field 
of  investigation  fraught  with  more  interest  to  scientists  and  to 
humanists.  I  believe  that  it  should  be  given  without  reference 
to  time  or  immediate  results,  for  scholars  can  produce  perma- 
nent results  only  when  allowed  to  work  out  a  problem  with 
minute  and  exhaustive  study.  I  believe  that  this  project  should 
be  entered  upon  now,  for  the  material  with  which  scholars  must 
work  is  fast  disappearing  at  the  hands  of  dealers  in  antiquities, 
of  builders,  and  of  fanatics. 

As  to  my  belief  in  Professor  Sterrett's  fitness  for  the  task  I 
can  only  state  that  in  my  opinion  there  is  no  other  man  in 
America  so  eminently  adapted  to  the  work  as  he  is.  In  the  first 
place  he  is  probably  more  familiar  than  any  other  American 
with  the  climate,  the  people  and  conditions  of  life  and  travel  in 
the  countries  where  the  work  must  be  done.  I  am  quoting  his 
great  teacher,  Professor  Ramsay,  when  I  say  that  very  few  oc- 
cidentals have  shown  the  ability  to  gain  the  respect  and  confi- 
dence of  oriental  peoples  to  such  a  degree  as  Professor  Sterrett. 
In  addition  he  has  acquired  experience  in  the  methods  of  ex- 
ploration and  investigation  in  the  East  serving  an  apprentice- 
ship under  Professor  Ramsay  and  by  independent  travels  of  his 
own.  Finally  I  myself  know  him  to  be  a  man  of  indefatigable 
zeal  in  the  pursuit  of  his  chosen  studies,  of  high  faith  in  the 
importance  to  mankind  of  scientific  research  in  the  field  of 
classical  and  Oriental  history,  and  of  an  integrity  of  character 
which  will  insure  the  conscientious  expenditure  of  every  dollar 
of  the  desired  appropriation  where  it  will  count  the  most  in 
furthering  this  enormous  and  important  undertaking. 

The  project  is  one  of  great  moment  to  human  knowledge  and 
therefore  to  mankind.  The  completion  of  such  a  work  will 
redound  infinitely  to  the  glory  of  the  American  Nation  and  will 
increase  its  influence  among  the  other  peoples  of  the  world. 

(Signed)     CLARENCE  0.  HARRIS. 


—147— 

Harvard  University, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A.,  Jan.  11,  1911. 
The  undersigned.  Professors  in  Harvard  University,  desire  to 
emphasize  the  importance  of  the  investigation  of  Asia  Minor 
and  northern  Syria  proposed  by  Professor  Sterrett.  The  region 
is  one  of  extraordinary  interest,  containing  as  it  does  numerous 
remains  of  Hittite,  classic,  and  Christian  times.  The  field  has 
been  only  partially  examined.  Good  work  has  been  done  by 
German,  Austrian,  English,  and  American  explorers,  but  the 
greater  part  of  the  territory  is  still  untouched. 

The  demand  for  speedy  exploration  is  pressing.    Year  by  year 
the  monuments  which  might  add  to  our  knowledge  of  the  past 
are  perishing.    There  is  now  a  unique  opportunity  for  scientific 
investigation  which  would  doubtless  yield  results  of  the  highest 
value  for  the  history  of  civilization,  both  Christian  and   pre- 
Christian.    We  therefore  commend  most  earnestly  the  proposed 
plan  of  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  northern  Syria. 
(Signed)     CEAWFORD  H.  TOY, 
GEORGE  P.  MOORE, 
DAVID  G.  LYON, 
WILLIAM  W.  GOODWIN, 
HERBERT  WEIR  SMYTH, 
ALBERT  A.  HOWARD, 
CHARLES  BURTON  GULICK, 
CLIFFORD  H.  MOORE, 
JAMES  HARDY  ROPES, 
WILLIAM  SCOTT  FERGUSON, 
EDWARD  KENNARD  RAND, 
GEORGE  H.  CHASE, 
CARL  N.  JACKSON, 
WILLIAM  R.  ARNOLD. 

Harvard  University, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  Jan.  10,  1911. 
In  addition  to  the  expression  of  interest  in  the  proposed  ex- 
pedition to  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  contained  in  the  letter  signed 
by  me  in  conjunction  with  other  Harvard  professors  I  wish  to 


—148— 

say  individually  that  a  thorough  examination  of  this  region 
seems  to  me  to  be  one  of  the  most  pressing  needs  of  our  times. 
The  questions  on  which  light  may  be  thrown  by  such  an  exami- 
nation are  of  high  importance  for  the  history  of  early  Western 
civilization  as  well  as  for  the  development  of  early  Christianity. 
So  large  an  apparatus  is  required  in  order  that  the  work  may 
be  properly  done  that  only  a  well-endowed  body  would  be  able 
to  furnish  the  requisite  pecuniary  means.  I  hope  that  advan- 
tage will  be  taken  of  the  opportunity  here  offered  to  do  a  noble 
work.  I  earnestly  commend  Professor  Sterrett  and  the  expedi- 
tion to  favorable  consideration. 

(Signed)     CRAWFORD  H.  TOY. 

Harvard  University, 

Semitic  Museum, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  Jan.  19,  1911. 
My  views  of  the  proposed  archaeological  investigation  of 
Asia  Minor  and  North  Syria  are  expressed  in  a  paper  signed  by 
several  of  our  Harvard  Professors.  But  I  write  to  say  that  I 
hope  the  money  may  be  found  for  the  enterprise,  and  that  I 
feel  sure  of  large  returns  in  the  increase  of  knowledge  which 
such  investigation  will  yield. 

(Signed)     DAVID  G.  LYON, 

Excavator  of  Samaria. 

Harvard  University. 

The  countries  of  the  old  world,  England,  France,  Germany, 
Austria,  Italy,  and  others,  have  conferred  signal  benefits  upon 
science  in  laying  bare  the  records  of  early  Oriental  and  Hel- 
lenic civilizations.  Our  country  alone  has  not  yet  ranked  itself 
in  equal  measure  with  these  in  advancing  the  knowledge  of 
mankind  in  Asia  Minor.  In  Europe  the  government  itself  or 
long  established  scientific  associations  have  supported  the  work 
of  surface  research  and  excavation.  In  the  United  States  the 
anthropologist  and  archaeologist  can  look  only  to  richly  en- 
dowed institutions   animated  by  a  like  idealistic   purpose.    As 


—149— 

a  people  we  must  first  assure  ourselves  of  the  substantial  value 
of  any  undertaking,  and  that  assurance  once  gained  we  devise 
far-reaching  and  thoroughgoing  plans  to  accomplish  the  end  in 
question. 

In  the  present  instance  it  must  be  the  opinion  of  any  one 
qualified  to  express  an  opinion  that  research  in  different  quar- 
ters of  Asia  Minor,  the  home  of  many  of  those  influences  which 
still  are  a  power  in  modern  thought,  cannot  but  be  of  unique 
profit  to  science  without  respect  of  nationality.  Nor  can  any 
one  doubt  that  the  scheme  outlined  by  Professor  Sterrett,  him- 
self an  experienced  explorer  in  those  regions,  bears  the  mark 
of  acquaintance  at  first  hand  with  the  chief  problems  at  stake 
and  the  practical  methods  to  be  employed.  To  secure  the  best 
results  in  the  most  effective  way  there  is  necessary  an  adequate 
subvention  carefully  distributed  between  initial  outlay  and  suc- 
cessive annual  expenditures  continued  without  interruption 
through  a  series  of  years.  The  plan  is  comprehensive,  the 
methods  are  well  formulated,  the  gain  will  be  large  and  lasting, 
and  the  honor  commensurate  with  the  dignity  of  the  enterprise. 
(Signed)     HERBERT  WEIR  SMYTH, 

Eliot  Professor  of  Greek  Literature  in  Harvard  University; 
Sometime  President  of  the  American  Philological  Association. 


Harvard  University, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  January  9,  1911. 
I  sincerely  hope  that  some  institution  may  be  moved  to  under- 
take the  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  which  Professor  Sterrett 
proposes. 

It  simetimes  seems  as  if  the  solution  of  all  the  problems  of  the 
Eastern  Mediterranean  Basin  was  buried  somewhere  in  Asia 
Minor. 

(Signed)     GEORGE  F.  MOORE. 


—ISO- 
Harvard  University, 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  Jan.  16,  1911. 
I  am  glad  to  have  an  opportunity  to  say  that  in  my  judgment 
Syria  and  Asia  Minor  were  connected  genetically  or  closely 
with  the  most  significant  historical  movements    between    the 
time  of  Alexander  the  Great  and   the   Fourth    Crusade.     The 
character  of  our  records  is  such  that  it  is  only  by  researches 
such  as  Professor  Sterrett  proposes  that  we  can  hope  to  come  to 
any  real  understanding  of  them.    I  know  of  no  more  timely  or 
promising  undertaking  than  the  scientific  exploration  of  these 
lands,  and  I  am  sure  that  there  is  nobody  better  fitted  to  ad- 
vance it  successfully  than  Professor  Sterrett. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  SCOTT  FERGUSON. 


Harvard  University, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  Jan.  23,  1911. 
I  have  read  with  great  interest  your  project  for  research  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria ;  and  I  want  to  assure  you  of  my  constant 
delight  in  all  that  you  are  doing  in  the  great  cause  in  which  we 
both  have  such  a  deep  interest. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  W.  GOODWIN. 


Harvard  University. 
I  have  been,  in  common  with  many  others,  much  interested  in 
the  plans  of  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  of  Cornell  University  for 
the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor.  Dr.  Sterrett  is  known  to  me 
only  professionally,  but  there  is  certainly  no  other  man  in 
America  so  competent  to  undertake  and  carry  out  the  work 
which  scholars  of  many  fields  desire  and  the  plans  which  he 
has  laid  so  carefully. 

(Signed)     CHARLES  BURTON  GULICK. 


—151— 

Tufts  College, 

Massachusetts, 
January  3,  1911. 
I  am  well  aware  of  the  importance  of  a  thorough  study  of 
Asia  Minor.  I  doubt  if  any  portion  of  the  earth's  surface 
would  yield  equally  important  results,  and  I  am  sure  that  the 
story  of  human  life  and  civilization  can  never  be  written  until 
Asia  Minor  has  been  made  to  tell  its  story  of  the  past. 

I  most  sincerely  hope  that  means  may  be  found  to  enable  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett  to  carry  on  successfully  the  work  which  he  is  so 
well  prepared  to  do  and  for  which  he  so  ardently  longs. 

( Si  gned )     FREDERICK  W.  HAMILTON, 

President  of  Tufts  College. 

Tufts  College, 

Massachusetts, 

Jan.  20,  1911. 
The  undersigned,  teachers  in  Tufts  College,  desire  to  express 
their  interest  in  the  proposal  of  Prof.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for  sys- 
tematic and  thorough  excavation    and    exploration    of    Asia 
Minor.    As  Prof.  Sterrett  was  himself  among  the  first  to  show, 
and  as  Dr.  Strzygowski  has  as  often  repeated  since,  it  is  in  Asia 
Minor  that  the  question  of  ''Orient  oder  Rom"  must  be  decided. 
It  would  seem  to  be  a  fine  thing  that  America  should  be  a  lead- 
ing factor  in  solving,  in  part  at  least,  the  eternal  question  of  the 
amount  and  character  of  the  debt  of  the  Occident  to  the  Orient. 
(Signed)     GEORGE  T.  KNIGHT, 
H.  G.  MITCHELL, 


WILLIAM  K.  DENISON, 
CHARLES  ST.  CLAIR  WADE. 

Amherst  College, 
Amherst,  Massachusetts,  January  13th,  1911. 
Every  one  acquainted  with  the  opportunities  for  a  most  re- 
markable addition  to  the  world 's  knowledge  through  exhaustive 
scientific  researches  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  will  be  intensely 


—152— 

interested  in  Dr.  Sterrett's  projected  expedition.  It  is  most 
important  that  these  investigations  be  made  without  loss  of 
time,  since  the  conditions  for  the  highest  success  are  rapidly  be- 
coming less  favorable.  And  we  believe  that  it  would  be  impos- 
sible to  find  another  man  so  splendidly  fitted  in  respect  to 
•enthusiasm,  scholarly  qualities,  sane  judgment  and  personal 
experience,  as  Dr.  Sterrett  to  undertake  this  work  and  to  push 
it  forward  to  a  successful  conclusion.  We  sincerely  hope  that 
the  way  will  be  speedily  opened  for  the  realization  of  Dr.  Ster- 
rett's plan  for  securing  priceless  information  concerning  the 
past  and  present  archaeological,  historical,  and  geographical 
facts  relating  to  Syria  and  Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     GEORGE  HARRIS, 

President  of  Amherst  College, 
LEVI  H.  ELWELL, 
HERBERT  P.  HOUGHTON, 
H.  de  F.  SMITH, 
WILLIAM  L.  COWLES. 

Amherst  College, 
Amherst,  Mass.,  January  11,  1911. 
I  am  very  much  interested  in  Professor  Sterrett's  plan,  and 
most  sincerely  hope  it  can  be  carried  through.  With  all  truth 
I  can  write,  that  I  feel  sure  there  is  no  man  so  well  qualified  as 
he  to  do  this  important  work  and  it  is  so  important  that  funds 
ought  to  be  forthcoming. 

(Signed)     AVILLIAM  L.  COWLES. 

Amherst  College. 
I    desire    to    record    my    hearty    approval    of    the    plan    as 
outlined,  and  also  to  express  my  conviction  that  no  American 
scholar  is  better  fitted  for  the  execution  of  such  a  plan  than  is 
Professor  Sterrett  himself. 

The  governments  of  Italy  and  Greece  have  become  fully  alive 
to  the  importance  of  thorough  exploration  of  their  respective 
but  nothing  of  this  sort  can  be  expected  from  Tur- 


—153— 

key.  Such  systematic  work  as  the  plan  recommends  can  not 
but  result  in  most  important  and  valuable  discoveries ;  and  if  it 
is  to  be  undertaken,  it  must  be  by  those  who  have  profited  most 
by  classical  studies,  who  most  thoroughly  understand  the  situ- 
ation, and  whose  means  are  adequate  to  the  undertaking.  In 
view  of  the  facts  in  the  case  as  they  have  been  set  forth  in  the 
''Outline,"  I  beg  to  express  my  earnest  hope  that  the  proposed 
enterprise  may  be  promoted  in  the  manner  indicated. 

(Signed)     L.  H.  EL  WELL. 

Williams  College, 
Williamstown,  Mass.,  Feb.  20th,  1911. 
There  is  probably  no  part  of  the  Mediterranean  lands  which 
promises  more  important  and  even  brilliant  results  from  exca- 
vation and  archaeological  research  than  Asia  Minor. 

AVilliams  College  gladly  adds  the  emphasis  of  its  approval  to 
the  plan  of  Professor  Sterrett.  and  joins  in  the  expression  of 
hope  that  the  funds  necessary  for  the  conduct  of  the  proposed 
expedition  may  be  obtained. 

(Signed)     H.  A.  GARFIELD, 

President  of  Williams  College, 
RICHARD  AUSTIN  RICE, 
GEORGE  EDWIN  HOWES, 
HENRY  D.  WILD, 
JOHN  S.  GALBRAITH, 
SHERWOOD  O.  DICKERMAN, 
MONROE  N.  WETMORE, 
DAVID  TAGGART  CLARK, 
JOHN  HASKELL  HEWITT. 

Smith  College, 
Northampton,  Mass.,  Jan.  6,  1911. 
I  heartily  approve  of  the  proposed  historical  research  in  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria,  and  should  be  glad  if  the  pecuniary  aid  can 
be  secured  which  will  make  it  possible. 

(Signed)     L.  CLARK  SEELYE, 

President  Emeritus  of  Smith  College. 


—154- 


Smith  College, 
Northampton,  Mass.,  January  16,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett  's  desire  to  make  a  systematic  and  thorough 
exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  in  order  to  secure  the  contributions 
to  history  which  it  is  assuredly  able  to  give,  receives  our  hearti- 
est sympathy.  Asia  Minor  is  a  veritable  treasure  house  of  his- 
torical material,  and  it  would  be  a  splendid  piece  of  work  to 
make  this  available  to  the  world. 

(Signed)     M.  L.  BURTON, 

President  of  Smith  College. 
HENRY  M.  TYLER,  Dean, 
JOHN  EVERETT  BRADY, 
JULIA  H.  CAVERNO, 
CHARLES  DOWNER  HAZEN, 
WILLIAM  DODGE  GRAY, 
MARY  B.  McELWAIN, 
MARY  L.  BENTON, 
ELIHU  GRANT, 
AMY  L.  BARBOUR. 

Mount  Holyoke  College, 
South  Hadley,  Mass.,  February  13th,  1911. 
It  gives  me  pleasure  to  approve  Professor  Sterrett 's  plan  for 
archaeological,  historical,  and  geographical    research    in  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria.    I  hope  that  he  will  have  the  support  neces- 
sary to  put  it  into  operation. 

(Signed)     MARY  E.  WOOLLEY, 

President  of  Mount  Holyoke  College. 

Also  endorsed  by 

(Signed)     HELEN  M.  SEARLES,  Latin, 
HELEN  E.  HO  AG,  Latin, 
MARY  GILMORE  WILLIAMS,  Greek, 
HELEN  C.  FLINT,  Greek, 
LOUISE  F.  RANDOLPH, 

Archaeology  and  History  of  Art, 
EDITH  H.  HALL,  Archaeology. 


—155— 

Yale  University, 
New  Haven,  Jan.  2,  1911. 
Understanding  that  Professor  Sterrett  is  endeavoring  to  se- 
cure a  grant  for  archaeological,  historical  and  geographical 
research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  we  take  pleasure  in  express- 
ing our  ardent  hope  that  the  wisdom  of  such  an  appropriation 
may  become  apparent. 

American  science  has  all  too  few  opportunities  to  place  its 
work  alongside  that  of  European  scholars.  Professor  Sterrett 's 
work  already  done  in  this  field,  coupled  with  the  unparalleled 
opportunities  now  unfolding  in  it,  makes  us  confident  that  were 
the  means  forthcoming  results  would  be  achieved  amply  re- 
warding the  undertakers  of  the  work  and  of  immeasurable 
worth  to  historical  science. 

(Signed)'  BEN  J.  W.  BACON, 

CHAELES  C.  TORREY, 

EDWARD  L.  CURTIS, 

ALBERT  T.  CLAY, 

E.  P.  MORRIS, 

THOMAS  iD.  GOODELL, 

E.  WASHBURN  HOPKINS, 

HANNS  OERTEL, 

ELLSWORTH  HUNTINGTON, 

P.  V.  C.  BAUR, 

G.  L.  HENDRICKSON, 

B.  PERRIN. 

Yale  University, 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  March  17,  1911. 
To  whom  it  may  concern : — 

From  our  knowledge  of  Asia  Minor  and  from  what  has  al- 
ready been  discovered,  it  appears  to  me  that  in  no  part  of  the 
world  lies  greater  opportunity  for  securing  archaeological 
material  by  the  help  of  which  the  history  and  development  of 
cultures  can  be  written  than  in  that  region,  the  bridge  between 
those  of  the  farther  East,  only  a  few  of  which  are  known,  and 


—156— 

those  of  the  West,  with  which  we  are  better  acquainted,  and 
from  which  our  own  culture  has  directly  come.  I  believe  that 
peoples  of  which  we  have  little  or  no  knowledge  will  be  re- 
stored to  their  place  in  history,  if  some  of  the  almost  countless 
ruin  heaps  in  that  land  are  opened  up  to  the  light  of  day  by 
systematic  excavations.  The  fact  that  clay  was  used  so  ex- 
tensively as  a  writing  material  in  that  district,  as  is  evident 
from  the  many  tablets  found,  makes  this  belief  reasonable.  The 
discovery  of  a  single  archive  like  that  which  was  unearthed  by 
"Winckler  and  Macridy  at  Boghaz  Kieui,  and  which  now  awaits 
decipherment  in  Constantinople,  would  amply  reward  any  eifort 
and  expense  that  the  project  would  involve. 

And  I  cannot  endorse  too  strongly  Professor  Sterrett,  so  well 
known  to  American  and  European  scholars,  as  one  well 
equipped  for  directing  such  an  undertaking.  With  adequate 
funds  to  carry  on  such  a  work  for  a  reasonable  number  of  years, 
I  feel  that  his  results  would  be  very  great,  and  also  most  grati- 
fying to  those  who  provide  the  means. 

(Signed)     ALBERT  T.  CLAY. 

Yale  University, 
New  Haven,  Jan.  7,  1911. 
All  those  who  are  interested  in  the  history  of  civilization  can 
have  but  one  opinion  in  regard  to  Prof.  Sterrett 's  project. 
There  is  no  other  land  from  which  light  is  so  much  needed  as 
from  Asia  Minor,  nor  any  other  where  immediate  results  of  the 
highest  importance  are  so  certain  to  be  obtained  by  any  thor- 
oughly equipped  expedition.  No  scholar  is  better  qualified  than 
Prof.  Sterrett  to  undertake  the  work  of  exploration. 

(Signed)     CHARLES  C.  TORRE Y. 
Professor  of  Semitic  Languages  in  Yale  University;  Chair- 
man of  the  Managing  Committee  of  the  American  School  for 
Oriental  Study  and  Research  in  Palestine. 


—157- 


Yale  University, 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  January  18,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett's  project  is  certainly  a  most  interesting 
and  valuable  one,  and  I  hope  sincerely  that  it  may  be  carried 
out.  Personally  I  should  be  especially  glad  of  this,  because  of 
my  own  work  in  that  country.  I  have  been  studying  the 
changes  of  physical  conditions  during  historic  times,  and  the 
work  which  Professor  Sterrett  proposes  to  do  would  afford  a 
vast  amount  of  information,  not  only  as  to  Asia  Minor  itself, 
but  as  to  many  other  parts  of  the  world. 

(Signed)     ELLSWORTH  HUNTINGTON, 
Carnegie  Research  Assistant,  Explorer,  Author,  Member  of 
Expeditions  to  Russian  Turkestan  and  to  Chinese  Turkestan. 

Trinity  College, 
Hartford,  Conn.,  February  6,  1911. 
We  are  greatly  interested  in  the  proposition  for  careful 
archaeological,  historical,  and  geographical  researches  in  Asia 
Minor  and  Syria.  We  trust  that  the  plan  of  which  an  outline 
has  been  furnished  us  will  be  carried  into  effect  and  that  funds 
may  be  provided  for  making  it  as  complete  as  possible.  It  cer- 
tainly promises  much  for  the  advancement  of  our  knowledge  of 
the  ancient  world. 

(Signed)     FLAYEL  S.  LUTHER, 

President  of  Trinity  College, 
FRANK  COLE  BABBITT, 
RAYMOND  GARFIELD  GETTELL, 
LE  ROY  C.  BARRET. 

Wesleyan  University, 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  Feb.  16,  1911. 
In  regard  to  the  project  of  extended  excavation  and  research 
in  Asia  Minor  we  are  in  hearty  agreement  with  Professor  Ster- 
rett. If  executed  in  a  comprehensive  way  it  would  probably  con- 
tribute more  than  any  other  one  thing  to  the  understanding  of 


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the  beginnings  of  occidental  civilization,  and  particularly  to 
the  knowledge  of  the  religions  which  were  most  influential  in 
shaping  the  thought  of  Greece  and  subsequently  of  Christian 
Europe. 

(Signed)     W.  A.  HEIDEL, 
J.  W.  HEWITT. 

Brown  University, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  January  24,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett  has  sent  me  a  truly  remarkable  pamphlet, 
containing  endorsements  from  all  over    the    country,  and    all 
foreign  countries,  regarding  the  w^ork  he  wishes  to  do.     .     .     . 
I  hope  that  in  some  way  the  way  will  open  up  for  the  great 
work  he  wishes  to  achieve. 

(Signed)     W.  H.  P.  FAUNCE, 

President  of  Brown  University. 

Brown  University, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  21st  March,  1911. 
If  my  word  be  worth  anything  to  the  cause,  I  may  say  that  I 
regard  the  project  as  one  of  vast  importance.    After  Greece  and 
Crete,  Asia  Minor  holds  the  key  to  ancient  classical  civilization ; 
and  more  than  either  she  bridges  the  gulf  between   East   and 
West.     The  nation  that  uncovers  Asia  Minor  will  rewrite  an- 
cient history;  and,  if  the  stupendous  task  is  ever  to  be  under- 
taken, why  are  not  we  the  people?    I  was  at  Athens  when  we 
lost  Delphi  to  the  French — a  loss  we  have  never  made  good ;  but 
this  project  of  Professor  Sterrett  would  be  an  ample  revenge. 
(Signed)     J.  IRVING  MANATT. 

The  General  Theological  Seminary, 

New  York  City,  February  1,  1911. 
From  its  geographical  position  alone  it  would  be  a  safe  in- 
ference that  Asia  Minor  must  have  held  an  important  place  in 
the  history  of  the  ancient  world.     The  knowledge  we   possess 
confirms  the  inference  abundantly.     Yet  this    knowledge    is 


—ISO- 
based  but  slightly  on  the  best  sources,  viz :  contemporary  rec- 
ords. But  those  records  are  still  accessible  in  large  quantities, 
above  the  soil,  and,  we  may  positively  affirm,  buried  in  the 
earth.  It  is  of  supreme  importance  that  the  rapidly  disappear- 
ing surface  records  be  scientifically  collected  and  studied,  or 
they  may  be  lost  forever.  Those  under  ground  should  also  be 
brought  to  light  for  the  increase  of  the  world's  knowledge. 
Incidentally  some  valuable  light  is  sure  to  be  cast  on  early- 
Christian  history,  especially  on  the  scenes  of  the  greater  part 
of  St.  Paul's  labors. 

Professor  Sterrett  has  secured  a  truly  remarkable  list  of  en- 
dorsements. His  plan  is  for  the  most  part  excellently  con- 
ceived. While  there  is  a  man  qualified  and  eager  for  the  work, 
the  opportunity  is  ripe.  The  only  lacking  requisite  is  enough 
money  to  carry  out  a  splendid  program.  America  has  now  a 
chance  to  make  a  record  in  a  timely  undertaking.  The  funds 
ought  to  be  provided  at  once. 

(Signed)     WILFORD  L.  BOBBINS,  Dean, 
WM.  J.  SEABURY, 
J.  CHARLES  ROPER, 
H.  M.  DENSLOW, 
CHARLES  N.  SHEPARD, 
CHAS.  C.  EDMUNDS, 
LORING  W.  BATTEN, 
ARTHUR  P.  HUNT, 
ARTHUR  W.  JENKS, 
FRANCIS  BRANCH  BLODGETT, 
WILLIAM  H.  P.  HATCH, 
CHARLES  H.  BOYNTON. 

Columbia  University, 

January  14,  1911. 
The  undersigned,  members  of  the  Department  of  Classical 
Philology  in  Columbia  University,  desire  to  express  their  cor- 
dial sympathy  with  the  plans  which  Professor  Sterrett  has  pro- 
posed for  the  scientific  study  of  Asia  Minor.  There  can  be  no 
question  at  all  that  a  better  knowledge  of  Asia  Minor  is  of  the 


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greatest  importance  in  the  study  of  the  development  of  Euro- 
pean civilization.  Anthropologist,  archaeologist,  geographer 
and  historian  are  all  likely  to  be  greatly  helped  by  a  careful 
and  systematic  investigation  of  the  problems  which  wait  for 
solution  in  this  region  of  the  earth. 

Professor  Sterrett's  extensive  travels  in  Asia  Minor  and  his 
experience  in  topographical  work  there  have  given  him,  of  all 
Americans,  the  knowledge  and  experience  necessary  for  the  pro- 
posed undertaking. 

(Signed)     EDWARD  DELAVAN  PERRY, 
J.  R.  WHEELER, 
CLARENCE  H.  YOUNG, 
JAMES  C.  EGBERT, 
GEORGE  N.  OLCOTT, 
NELSON  G.  McCREA, 
FRANK  GARDENER  MOORE. 

Columbia  University, 
New  York,  January  3,  1911. 
I  most  earnestly  believe  in  such  a  careful  study  of  Asia  Minor 
as  Professor  Sterrett  has  proposed,  and  I  earnestly  hope  it  may 
be  brought  to  pass.  Scholars  are  certainly  agreed  that  no 
region  contains  within  its  soil  so  many  secrets  bearing  upon  the 
origin  of  European  civilization  and  the  relations  of  that  civili- 
zation to  the  orient.  Professor  Sterrett  may,  I  am  sure,  count 
on  the  cordial  sympathy  of  the  School  at  Athens  in  any  such 
undertaking. 

(Signed)     J.  R.  WHEELER, 
Chairman  of  the  Managing  Committee  of  the  School  at  Athens. 

Columbia  University, 

New  York,  Jan.  6,  1911. 
I  heartily  endorse  Professor  Sterrett's  project  for  archaeo- 
logical work  in  Asia  Minor  and  earnestly  hope  that  he  may  suc- 
ceed in  securing  financial  support.     What  he    has   previously 
done  in  that  field  is  ample  proof  of  his    ability   to    go    much 


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further  and  do  far  more.  The  results  have  solid  scientific  value 
and  a  poignant  interest  for  all  who  study  or  profit  by  the  study 
of  history. 

(Signed)     WM.  M.  SLOANE, 
President  of  the  American  Historical  Association. 


Columbia  University, 
New  York,  January  2,  1911. 
I  send  you  hearty  good  wishes  for  your  work,  and  join  in  en- 
dorsing your  plans  regarding  archaeological  researches  in  Asia 
Minor — a  most  promising  field. 

(Signed)     A.  V.  WILLIAMS  JACKSON, 

Professor  of  Indo-Iranian  Languages. 


Columbia  University, 
New  York,  January  4th,  1911. 
I  endorse  with  heartiness  the  plan  which  Professor  Sterrett 
has  formulated  for  archaeological  work  in  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria.  I  hope  he  may  be  successful  in  turning  attention  to  a 
field  which  is  so  promising  of  results  and  in  which  American  ef- 
fort has  done  so  little. 

(Signed)     RICHARD  GOTTHEIL, 

Director  of  the  American  School  for  Oriental  Study  and  Re- 
search in  Palestine  in  1909-1910. 


The  Senate  of  New  Jersey, 

Jan.  12th,  1911. 

I  endorse  most  heartily  Professor  Sterrett 's  project  for 
archaeological,  historical  and  geographical  research  in  Asia 
Minor  and  I  trust  that  his  petition  asking  for  support  in  this 
matter  may  be  granted. 

(Signed)     JOHN  D.  PRINCE, 
Professor  of  Semitic  Languages  in  Columbia  University. 


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Columbia  University. 
Every  investigation  thus  far  conducted  on  the  soil  of  ancient 
civilization  by  trained  archaeologists  in  combination  with  stu- 
dents of  architecture,  has  been  productive  of  distinct  gains  to 
our  insight  into  the  world  of  ancient  thought.  As  a  young  man, 
Professor  Sterrett  won  his  laurels  by  his  admirable  work  in 
little  known  regions  of  Asia  Minor.  He  has  since  then  been  a 
close  student  of  every  investigation  of  value  that  contributed  to 
the  widening  knowledge  of  antiquities.  I  feel  sure  that  if  an 
endowed  institution  could  see  its  way  clear  to  the  support  of 
the  larger  scheme  which  he  has  outlined,  it  would  call  forth  ex- 
cellent results  of  a  kind  that  would  link  closely  together  the 
records  of  ancient  times  and  of  later  institutions.  Large  parts 
of  Asia  Minor  are  substantially  virgin  soil,  as  far  as  thorough 
investigation  is  concerned,  and  the  remarkable  results  that  have 
been  achieved  by  the  Germans  at  Pergamon,  Priene,  Miletus 
and  other  points  in  Asia  Minor  and  of  the  Austrians  at  Ephesus 
seem  to  invite  similar  efforts. 

(Signed)     JULIUS  SACHS. 

Columbia  University. 
To  me  as  an  archaeologist  and  classical  scholar  Professor 
Sterrett 's  plan  appeals  very  strongly  and  I  believe  that,  if  car- 
ried out,  it  must  yield  important  results  and  add  greatly  to  our 
present  knowledge  in  archaeology,  epigraphy,  history  and 
probably  also  in  classical  architecture  and  sculpture.  Prof. 
Sterrett  himself  is  personally  admirably  equipped  by  experience 
and  knowledge  to  conduct  such  explorations.  In  fact  I  know  of 
no  other  American  scholar  so  well  qualified  for  such  work  in 
Asia  Minor  and  I  sincerely  hope  that  the  necessary  grant  may 
be  made. 

(Signed)     CLARENCE  H.  YOUNG. 

New  York  University, 
New  York,  Jan.  3,  1911. 
I  heartily  indorse  the  appeal  of  Professor  Sterrett  for  a  grant 
for  excavations  in  Asia  Minor,  with  a  view  to  increasing   the 


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world's  knowledge  of  ancient  times  and  races.  The  possibilities 
offered  by  such  excavations  have  fascinated  me  ever  since  I 
made  a  special  study  of  the  results  of  excavations  at  Mycenae 
and  Tiryns  as  a  college  student.  While  not  qualified  myself  to 
indorse  the  details  of  the  plan,  I  am  prepared  heartily  to  second 
the  indorsement  of  Sir  William  M.  Ramsay  which  Professor 
Sterrett  has  already  received,  as  I  know  of  no  one  better  quali- 
fied from  personal  experience  to  form  a  just  estimate  of  the 
probable  returns  which  such  excavations  would  yield.  It  would 
be  a  great  gratification  to  my  colleagues  in  the  Faculty  of  New 
York  University  as  well  as  to  myself,  should  Professor  Sterrett 's 
appeal  receive  favorable  consideration. 

(Signed)     JOHN  H.  MacCRACKEN, 
Acting  Chancellor  of  New  York  University. 

New  York  University, 

New  York,  March  1,  1911. 
Any  one  who  is  at  all  familiar  with  the  more  recent  work 
done  by  scholars  like  Ramsay,  Hogarth  and  others  who  have 
preceded  and  followed  them  in  unearthing  the  rich  treasures  in 
Asia  Minor,  that  throw  floods  of  light  upon  the  ancient  cus- 
toms, religion,  and  life  in  that  part  of  the  world,  will  earnestly 
desire  that  the  request  for  means  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
on  thorough  archaeological  research  there  may  succeed.  Un- 
questionably, most  important  and  interesting  additions  will  be 
made  to  what  we  already  know  in  part  touching  the  early  civ- 
ilization and  the  history  of  this  tramping  ground  of  the  nations 
of  the  East  and  the  West. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  E.  WATERS, 
ERNEST  J.  SIHLER, 
MARSHALL  S.  BROWN, 
ERNEST  RIESS. 

College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
Permit  me  to  say  that  I  believe  it  to  be   the   opinion   of  all 
scholars  that  this  is  a  project  from  which  the  most  ample  and 
valuable  returns  may  be  expected,  and  I  believe  further  that 


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Professor  Sterrett  is  much  better  fitted  than  any  other  Ameri- 
can to  undertake  such  a  work.  No  other  American,  I  think, 
enjoys  so  high  a  reputation  as  an  explorer  and  epigraphist 
among  foreign  scholars,  and  an  expedition  under  his  direction 
would  command  at  once  their  respect  and  confidence. 

The  opinions  which  I  have  stated  are  based  in  large  part  upon 
my  own  experience  of  two  years  in  study  and  excavation  in 
Greece. 

(Signed)     CARLETON  L.  BROWNSON. 


The  University  of  Rochester, 

Office  of  the  President, 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  7,  1911. 
I  sincerely  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett  will  succeed  in  secur- 
ing the  subvention  which  is  necessary  to  insure  the  continuance 
of  the  archaeological  investigations  in  Asia  Minor.  I  believe 
that  such  investigations  promise  much  for  our  more  perfect 
knowledge  of  classical  and  early  Christian  times,  and  I  appre- 
ciate the  importance  of  avoiding  further  delay. 

(Signed)     RUSH  RHEES. 


Union  College, 
Office  of  the  President. 
Schenectady,  New  York,  Jan.  3rd,  1911. 
It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  endorse  Professor  Sterrett 's  re- 
quest for  assistance  in  furthering  the  project  he  has  in   mind. 
There  is  no  doubt  that  Asia  Minor  holds  treasures  of  inestimable 
value  which  have  never  seen  light ;  waiting  only  the  skill,  and 
enterprise,  and  devotion  of  scholars  such  as  Professor  Sterrett. 
The  necessary  funds  for  such  work  should  not  be  wanting,  and 
the  results,  I  am  sure,  would  not  only  justify  the  expenditure, 
but  add  materially  to  the  sum  of  human  knowledge. 

(Signed)     CHARLES  ALEXANDER  RICHMOND, 
President  of  Union  College, 
JOHN  IRA  BENNETT,  Greek. 


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Union  College, 

Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
I  urge  upon  your  attention,  as  worthy  of  a  subvention,  the 
plan  of  Professor  Sterrett,  of  Cornell  University,  for  the  ex- 
ploration of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  I  take  the  liberty  also  of 
expressing  my  sincere  belief  in  the  fitness  of  Professor  Sterrett 
to  do  expert  research  work,  including  the  work  implied  in  said 
pamphlet. 

(Signed)     SIDNEY  G.  ASHMORE. 


Hamilton  College, 
The  President's  Rooms, 
Clinton,  New  York,  Jan.  3,  1911. 
The  outline  plan  for  Research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  will, 
I  am  sure,  make  an  earnest  appeal  to  all  persons  capable  to 
perceive  its  abundant  reason  and  scope  and  also  the  necessity 
of  prompt  action.  The  endorsements  put  it  outside  the  prob- 
lematical, leaving  it  to  be  but  a  question  of  ways  and  means.  I 
trust  that  Professor  Sterrett 's  fitness  and  readiness  may  be 
made  use  of.  I  shall  be  glad  if  his  comprehensive  idea  meets  the 
approval  and  engages  the  assistance  of  men  or  institutions  of 
wealth.  Such  work  resolutely  promoted  through  a  term  of 
years  that  left  nothing  to  the  merely  tentative  and  sporadic 
would  honor  those, who  undertake  it,  would  enlarge  the  bounds 
of  exact  historical  knowledge,  and  would  reflect  great  credit 
upon  American  sagacity  and  timeliness. 

(Signed)     M.  WOOLSEY  STRYKER, 

President  of  Hamilton  College. 

Hamilton  College, 
Clinton,  N.  Y.,  January  9th,  1911. 
We,  the  undersigned,  heartily  recommend  the  plan  of  Profes- 
sor Sterrett  for  the  systematic  and  continuous  exploration    of 
Asia  Minor. 

(signed)     EDWARD  FITCH, 
H.  B.  WARD. 


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HERMAN  LOUIS  EBELING, 
JOS.  D.  IBBOTSON,  JR., 
H.  C.  G.  BRANDT, 
FRANK  HOYT  WOOD, 
W.  H.  SQUIRES, 
AUGUSTUS  H.  SHEARER, 
WILLIAM  P.  SHEPARD, 
F.  M.  DAVENPORT. 


Vassar  College, 
President's  Office, 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  January  18,  1911. 
In  the  belief  that  both  surface  research  and  excavations   in 
Asia  Minor  would  yield  rich  results  for  the  knowledge  of  past 
civilizations    (Hittite,  Phrygian,   Greek,    Graeco-Roman,    and 
Early  Christian),  we  wish  to  express  our  deep  interest  in  Pro- 
fessor J.  R.  S.  Sterrett's  appeal  for  a  subvention  to  make  pos- 
sible this  great  work.    And  we  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett  him- 
self in  view  of  his  idealistic  conception  of  so   tremendous    an 
undertaking  and  his  peculiar  fitness  in  linguistic  equipment  and 
practical  experience  for  the  leadership  of  it  may  be  placed  at 
the  head  of  the  expedition  planned. 

(Signed)     JAMES  M.  TAYLOR, 

President  of  Vassar  College, 
ABBY  LEACH,  Greek, 
LUCY  M.  SALMON,  History, 
J.  LEVERETT  MOORE,  Latin, 
ELIZABETH  HAZELTON  HAIGHT,  Latin, 
IDA  CARLTON  THALLOU,  History, 
GRACE  HARRIET  MACURDY,  Greek. 


Vassar  College. 
Professor  Sterrett  has  eminent  fitness  for  planning  this  work 
and  if  he  can  secure  the  required  amount,  he  will  do  work  in 
archaeology  beyond  anything  yet  reached  by  any  of  our  work- 


—167— 

ers  in  the  field.  Our  country  has  not  made  any  great  mark  in 
this  work  as  yet  and  this  will  be  a  glorious  opportunity.  I 
know  of  no  one  else  so  well  fitted  in  every  way  to  do  this  work 
on  a  large  scale  and  with  conspicuous  results. 

(Signed)     ABBY  LEACH. 

Syracuse  University, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  16,  1911. 

Professor  Sterrett's  project  for  the  archaeological  survey  of 
Asia  Minor  seems  most  timely  and  it  is  one  which  ought  to  com- 
mand the  sympathy  and  assistance  of  all  who  are  interested  in 
the  search  for  and  the  preservation  of  the  monuments  of  the 
past  in  the  widest  sense  of  the  term. 

Nowhere  in  the  ancient  world  is  there,  at  the  present  moment, 
so  great  a  need  for  more  light  as  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
peninsula  of  Asia  Minor  and  in  northern  Syria.  The  questions 
which  are  arising  over  our  new  discoveries  concerning  the 
Hittites  and  their  culture,  the  origin  of  that  culture  and  its 
relation  to  both  Mesopotamia  and  the  Ionian  coast  demand  an 
immediate  search  of  this  part  of  the  world  for  more  monuments 
and,  more  particularly,  for  that  stone  whose  dual  inscription 
will  unlock  the  secrets  of  their  language. 

In  no  country  has  the  deterioration  and  destruction  of  the 
ancient  monuments  progressed  so  rapidly  as  in  Turkey  and, 
what  is  of  more  consequence,  that  process  seems  recently  to 
have  been  accelerated,  thanks  to  the  increased  prosperity 
brought  by  the  railroads.  The  Turk  has  no  respect  or  sympathy 
for  the  pre-Muslim  past  and  very  little  for  his  own.  His  tem- 
perament directs  him  to  take  for  his  own  use  all  materials  which 
the  past  has  put  in  his  way  without  the  slightest  care  for  the 
consequences.  Inscriptions  and  milestones  find  their  way  to  the 
lime-kiln  and  the  macadam  road,  ancient  buildings  become 
quarries  for  government  structures  as  well  as  for  the  veriest 
hovel,  while  the  mounds  themselves  which  cover  the  remains  of 
ancient  cities  are  used  as  fertilizer  and  for  the  extraction  of 
saltpeter.  Particularly  the  mounds  of  Iconium,  Tyana,  Mazaca, 
and  Malatia  are  facing  a  destruction  which  is  in  some  cases  al- 


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ready  far  advanced.    If  we  are  really  to  penetrate  the  secrets  of 
Mazaca  or  Malatia,  excavation  must  take  place  at  once. 

The  direction  of  this  work  could  not  be  placed  in  better 
liands.  No  other  American  has  had  better  training  or  greater 
success  in  archaeological  field  work.  The  statement  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Kamsay,  the  greatest  of  the  workers  in  Asia  Minor,  made 
to  one  of  the  signers  of  this  letter,  that  no  one  was  ever  more 
successful  in  dealing  with  the  Turks  and  in  ferreting  out  in- 
scriptions, is  sufficient  proof  of  this. 

There  can  be  no  more  praiseworthy  scheme  for  the  further- 
ance of  knowledge,  nor  one  of  more  general  interest,  than  this 
plan  which  Professor  Sterrett  suggests. 

(Signed)     FRANK  SMALLEY, 
EDGAR  A.  EMENS, 
PERLEY  OAKLAND  PLACE. 
HERBERT  M.  BURCHARD, 
CURTIS  C.  BUSHNELL, 
HAROLD  L.  CLEASBY, 
JAMES  BULLARD, 
A.  C.  FLICK, 
E.  P.  TANNER, 
JAMES  G.  RANDALL, 
J.  E.  WRENCH. 


Colgate  University, 

Office  of  the  Dean, 
Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  January  17,  1911. 
Personally  I  have  a  keen  interest  in  the  undertaking  Professor 
Sterrett  is  trying  to  forward,  and  trust  it  may  be  possible  for 
American  scholars  to  excavate  some  of  those  eastern  sites. 
(Signed)     JOHN  GREENE,  Acting  Dean. 


University  of  Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia,  Jan.  6,  1911. 

We  most  heartily  commend  Professor  Sterrett 's  project  for 


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the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  hope  that  he  may  obtain  the 
financial  support  which  it  needs. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  N.  BATES, 
H.  L.  CROSBY, 

WALTER  WOODBURN  HYDE, 
JOHN  C.  ROLFE, 
HENRY  GIBBONS, 
HERMAN  V.  AMES, 
MORRIS  JASTROW,  JR., 
ROLAND  G.  KENT. 

University  of  Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia,  Jan.  6th,  1911. 

I  heartily  endorse  the  plan  of  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for 
the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  and  respectfully  urge  that  the 
grant  for  which  he  asks  may  be  made.  There  can  be  no  doubt 
that  such  a  thorough  exploration  as  he  proposes  would  give  re- 
sults of  the  highest  value,  not  only  to  classical  scholars,  but  to 
many  other  departments  of  knowledge.  Professor  Sterrett  is 
unusually  well  qualified  by  sound  scholarship  and  by  practical 
experience  as  an  explorer  and  an  archaeologist  to  direct  such 
an  expedition.    A  better  man  could  not  be  found. 

(Signed)     JOHN  C.  ROLFE, 
President  of  the  American  Philological  Association. 

University  of  Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia,  23  January,  1911. 
Prof.  Sterrett 's  plan  for  a  thorough  series  of  excavations  in 
Asia  Minor  and  Syria  is  of  supreme  importance.  Enough  has 
come  to  light  in  these  regions  through  sporadic  explorations  to 
justify  the  belief  that  the  soil  harbors  important  treasures  in 
large  numbers.  We  now  know  the  important  part  played  in 
ancient  times  by  the  peoples  that  gathered  together  in  the 
various  parts  of  Asia  IMinor  and  Syria,  but  it  is  also  evident 
that  further  progress  in  our  knowledge  of  significant  centres  of 
ancient  civilizations  is  only  possible  through  excavations  con- 


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ducted  systematically  and  on  a  large  scale  for  a  continuous 
period  of  years.  All  who  are  interested  in  enlarging  the  sphere 
of  human  knowledge  will  therefore  approve  Prof.  Sterrett's 
plan  and  hope  for  its  realization. 

(Signed)     MORRIS  JASTROW,  JR., 

Professor  of  Semitic  Languages. 

University  of  Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia,  Jan.  22,  1911. 
I  most  sincerely  endorse  and  recommend  Professor  Sterrett's 
plan  for  a  thorough  exploration  of  Asia  Minor.    I  have  no  doubt 
that  it  will  yield  rich  results  for  the  history  of  mankind   and 
only  wish  that  its  realization  could  be  effected  very  soon. 

W.  MAX  MtJLLER, 
R.  E.  Seminary.    Author  of  Egyptological  Researches.     Re- 
search work  in  Egypt  for  the  Carnegie  Institution. 

University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

I  have  recently  received  a  statement  as  to  Professor  Ster- 
rett's proposed  expedition  to  Asia  Minor,  and  I  write  to  say 
how  heartily  I  sympathize  with  the  project.  I  have  myself  done 
considerable  traveling  in  Asia  Minor  and  I  can  substantiate  all 
Dr.  Sterrett  says  of  the  richness  of  the  country  in  archaeological 
material.  An  institution  having  money  available  would  cer^ 
tainly  be  doing  a  service  to  classical  scholars  in  furthering  this 
project. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  N.  BATES. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Kindly  allow  me  to  state  that  I  agree  heartily  and  entirely 
with  Dr.  Sterrett  as  to  the  great  necessity  of  having  the  coun- 
tries referred  to  by  him  explored  methodically  and  thoroughly. 
Asia  Minor  is  practically  a  ''terra  incognita"  archaeologically 
and  historically,  in  importance  inferior  to  no  other  country. 
I  speak  from  a  practical  knowledge  of  a  large  section  of  this 


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country,  obtained  by  numerous  scientific  excursions  into  the 
Hittite  region  during  the  last  fifteen  years. 

It  would  be  highly  desirable  to  impress  upon  such  expedi- 
tions the  duty  of  obtaining  squeezes  and  casts  of  every  inscrip- 
tion and  monument  discovered,  with  a  view  of  depositing  them 
in  the  National  Museum  at  Washington  or  in  a  special  museum 
to  be  created  and  maintained  by  some  institution. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  scientific  exploration  of  Asia 
Minor  with  its  many  problems  and  their  hidden  solutions  will 
soon  stand  in  the  very  centre  of  archaeological  and  historical 
interest,  and  it  would  be  a  magnificent  work  on  the  part  of  any 
institution  to  share  in  the  opening  up  of  this  ''dark  continent" 
by  sending  out  a  well  equipped  expedition,  or  more,  to  Asia 
Minor. 

(Signed)     H.  V.  HILPRECHT. 


Bryn  Mawr  College, 
Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.,  Feb.  25,  1911. 

Professor  Sterrett  has  already  elicited  from  the  leading 
scholars  of  the  world  emphatic  testimony  as  to  the  importance 
and  timeliness  of  his  proposed  undertaking  in  Asia  Minor.  I 
heartily  agree  with  this  testimony,  and  earnestly  hope  that  he 
may  be  granted  the  funds  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of 
this  great  task. 

(Signed)     GEO.  A.  BARTON. 

Professor  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Semitic  Languages  in 
Bryn  Mawr  College. 


Bryn  Mawr  College, 

Bryn  Mawr,  Feb.  8,  1911. 

I  can  imagine  no  more  interesting  and  valuable  contribution 
to  archaeology  and  the  history  of  the  past,  clouded  as  it  is,  for 
lack  of  just  such  investigations. 

(Signed)     WILMER  CAVE  WRIGHT. 


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Princeton  University, 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  January  6,  1911. 
The  undersigned,  members  of  the  Faculty  of  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, endorse  in  the  heartiest  manner  the  petition  of  Pro- 
fessor J.  R.  S.  Sterrett.  There  can  be  no  doubt  among  archae- 
ologists or  historians  that  Asia  Minor  is  now  the  most  important 
land  to  explore  and  excavate.  There  is  good  reason  to  expect 
that  the  clues  to  the  understanding  of  the  ethnology,  history 
and  civilization  of  three  milleniums  previous  to  the  Mycenean 
age  will  be  found  there.  The  development  of  municipal  gov- 
ernment under  the  Macedonian  and  Roman  Empires,  the  con- 
ditions under  which  the  Christian  Church  was  organized,  the 
origins  and  spread  of  the  Byzantine  culture  can  be  studied  best 
in  Asia  Minor.  Only  a  beginning  has  been  made  of  scientific 
explorations  of  this  immense  territory. 

There  is  also  need  of  haste.  With  the  construction  of  the 
new  railroad  and  the  changed  conditions  of  the  country  has 
come  an  activity  in  building  which  threatens  to  remove  in  a 
short  time  many  of  the  most  important  monuments;  for  in- 
scriptions and  works  of  art  alike  are  being  used  as  common 
building  material,  broken  into  rubble,  burnt  for  lime,  or  other- 
wise totally  destroyed. 

AVe  have  the  fullest  confidence  in  Professor  Sterrett  himself 
as  an  investigator  and  explorer  whose  merit  is  proven  and 
whose  reputation  is  established.  We  therefore  commend  the 
immediate  consideration  of  this  project  which  we  believe  will 
contribute  greatly  to  the  advancement  of  learning  and  to  the 
honor  of  our  own  country. 

(Signed)     ANDREW  F.  WEST,  Dean, 
FRANK  F.  ABBOTT, 
ALLAN  MARQUAND, 
HOWARD  CROSBY  BUTLER, 
RUDOLPH  E.  BRtJNNOW, 
WILLIAM  LIBBEY, 
DUANE  REED  STUART, 
DAVID  MAGIE,  JR., 
WM.  K.  PRENTICE, 
EDWARD  CAPPS. 


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Princeton  University, 
I  have  read  with  a  great  deal  of  interest  recently  the  ' '  Outline 
of  a  Plan  for  the  Exploration  of  Asia  Minor,"  which  Professor 
J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  of  Cornell  has  been  interested  in  forming.  It 
seems  to  me  that  the  execution  of  this  plan  is  of  the  greatest 
consequence  to  scholarship  and  historical  research,  and  I  hope 
most  sincerely  that  some  well-endowed  institution  may  see  its 
way  clear  to  assist  its  carrying  out.  It  might  result,  and  prob- 
ably would  result,  in  rendering  unique  service  to  the  learned 
world. 

(Signed)     WOODROW  WILSON. 


Princeton  University. 

Permit  me  to  give  my  testimony  in  favor  of  the  plan  for  the 
exploration  of  Asia  Minor,  proposed  by  Professor  Sterrett. 

I  have  been  in  Syria  twice  and  have  traveled  through  large 
sections  of  that  country,  as  a  member  of  two  archaeological  ex- 
peditions. I  can  assure  you  from  personal  observation,  that  the 
ancient  monuments,  of  every  sort,  are  being  destroyed  with  very 
great  rapidity.  This  is  due  in  part  to  a  sudden  revival  of  build- 
ing activity  in  certain  districts,  in  part  to  new  methods  of 
construction — there  are  now  men  who  make  their  whole  living 
by  breaking  up  ancient  monuments  into  blocks  suitable  for 
modern  use — and  in  part  to  the  idea  that,  since  so  much  atten- 
tion is  being  paid  to  the  inscriptions  and  monuments  by  the 
foreigners,  these  inscriptions,  etc.,  must  somehow  profit  the 
foreigners  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  natives  themselves.  I 
believe  that  it  is  most  desirable  to  send  expeditions  into  this 
country  as  soon  as  possible,  and  that  great  good  would  be  de- 
rived from  the  association  of  engineers,  linguists,  archaeolo- 
gists and  historians  as  proposed.  I  believe  that  the  knowledge 
acquired  by  such  expeditions  would  be  of  great  value  to  the 
whole  world,  in  many  ways ;  for  example,  with  respect  to  mat- 
ters in  which  I  myself  am  most  interested  such  expeditions 
could  not  fail  to  discover  much,  first  concerning  the  administra- 
tion of  the  East  under  the  Roman  and  then  under  the  Byzantine 


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empires,  and  second  concerning 'the  development  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  the  Christian  Church. 

Among  Americans,  Professor  Sterrett  is  undoubtedly  the  best 
known,  the  most  experienced,  and  the  most  successful  explorer 
of  the  countries  in  question. 

(Signed)     WM.  K.  PRENTICE. 

Drew  Theological  Seminary, 

Madison,  N.  J.,  January  24,  1911. 
I  am  delighted  to  have  the  opportunity  of  adding  my  name  to 
the  long  and  distinguished  list  of  those  who  support  Professor 
Sterrett 's  plan  for  an  adequate  archaeological  exploration  of 
the  more  interesting  sites  in  Asia  Minor.  There  can  be  no 
doubt  of  the  importance  of  the  work  to  be  done,  or  any  doubt 
of  the  high  probable  value  of  the  results,  and  it  is  equally  cer- 
tain that  we  have  no  scholar  so  well  adapted  by  learning,  ex- 
perience and  sound  judgment  to  attempt  it  as  Professor  Ster- 
rett.   I  earnestly  hope  that  his  plans  may  succeed. 

(Signed)     ROBERT  W.  ROGERS. 

The  Johns  Hopkins  University, 

Baltimore,  Md.,  January  4,  1911. 
I  sincerely  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett  may  be  able  to  secure 
the  necessary  funds  for  archaeological  and  historical  research 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria. 

I  recognize  very  clearly  the  great  value  to  mankind  of  such 
researches  as  Professor  Sterrett  wishes  to  have  undertaken, 
and  if  my  opinion  should  be  asked  by  any  board  having  money 
available  for  such  purposes,  I  shall  be  glad  to  do  everything  in 
my  power  to  aid  the  work. 

(Signed)     IRA  REMSEN, 
President  of  Johns  Hopkins  University. 


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The  Johns  Hopkins  University, 

Baltimore,  Md.,  January  6th,  1911. 
We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Academic  Staff  of  the 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  are  fully  convinced  of  the  import- 
ance of  the  projected  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  and 
desire  to  give  it  our  most  cordial  endorsement.  We  sincerely 
hope  that  the  petition  of  Professor  Sterrett  may  result  in  se- 
curing a  sufficient  financial  support  to  warrant  the  immediate 
undertaking  of  the  work,  as  well  as  to  ensure  its  steady  con- 
tinuation and  successful  completion. 

(Signed)     KIRBY  FLOWER  SMITH, 
HARRY  L.  WILSON, 
DAVID  M.  ROBINSON, 
C.  W.  E.  MILLER, 
MAURICE  BLOOMFIELD, 
E.  H.  SPIEKER, 
W.  P.  MUSTARD. 

The  Johns  Hopkins  University, 

January  4th,  1911. 
We  all  sincerely  hope  for  your  success  in  this  effort,  which 
may  mean  so  much  for  the  future  of  the  studies  in  which  we 
are  most  interested. 

(Signed)     HARRY  L.  WILSON. 

Johns  Hopkins  University. 
Permit  me  to  give  expression  to  my  hearty  approval  of  the 
plan,  outlined  in  a  recent  pamphlet  by  Prof.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett, 
for  the  exploration  of  Asia  Minor.  It  may  be  said  without  ex- 
aggeration that  there  is  no  country  from  a  thorough  explora- 
tion of  which  more  important  results  may  be  expected  for  the 
history  of  human  civilization,  and  no  country  for  which  hith- 
erto so  little  has  been  attempted  in  the  line  of  systematic  re- 
search and  excavation  than  Asia  Minor.  It  would  seem  to  me 
eminently  proper  that  support  be  given  to  an  experienced 
scholar  who  is  able  and  willing  to  organize  and  to  guide  the 
Avork  of  an  American  expedition  to  Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     HERMAN  COLLITZ. 


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University  of  Virginia, 
Charlottesville,  Va.,  Jan.  15,  1911. 

The  sweeping  verdict  of  the  European  world  is  conclusive  as 
to  the  importance  and  wisdom  of  Professor  Sterrett's  plan.  He 
is  undoubtedly  the  man  of  all  men  in  America  to  carry  it  out. 
He  is  the  pioneer  in  archaeological  exploration  so  far  as  Ameri- 
can scholarship  is  concerned,  and  he  is  the  only  American  who 
is  recognized  in  Europe  as  belonging  to  the  ranks  of  the  great 
archaeological  explorers  of  the  world. 

Many  years  of  his  life  have  been  spent  in  the  very  field  which 
he  now  desires  to  develop,  and  after  added  years  of  study  and 
reflection  he  will  go  back  to  his  great  task  in  the  full  ripeness 
of  his  knowledge  and  efficiency. 

A  great  institution  or  a  man  of  great  wealth  has  a  chance  to 
do  something  here  that  America  has  never  undertaken  before, 
and  that  she  may  never  again  have  the  honor  of  undertaking. 
Professor  Sterrett's  contributions  to  the  world's  knowledge  of 
ancient  Asia  Minor  are  already  a  Ktema  Eis  Aei.  These  expe- 
ditions under  his  leadership  will  attract  the  interest  of  all 
Europe,  and  the  results  of  his  ripe  labors  will  raise  America's 
rank  in  the  field  of  science. 

The  University  of  Virginia,  which  is  proud  of  being  Professor 
Sterrett's  undergraduate  Alma  Mater,  rejoices  that  he  has 
single-handed  conceived  and  proposed  his  great  plan,  and  en- 
dorses heartily  the  verdict  of  the  scientific  world  that  its  execu- 
tion is  his  own  peculiar  task. 

(Signed)     THOMAS  FITZHUGH. 

University  of  Virginia, 

Jan.  22,  1911. 
The  project  of  Professor  Sterrett  has  my  earnest  endorse- 
ment. There  is,  in  my  opinion,  no  field  of  research  more  cer- 
tain to  bear  valuable  fruit  than  that  which  he  proposes  to  culti- 
vate. I  have  known  him  personally  for  many  years  and  am 
acquainted  with  the  work  that  he  has  done,  and  I  do  not  know, 
or  know  of,  any  man  possessing  all  the  needful  qualifications  in 
a  higher,  or  even  so  high,  a  degree  as  he  does. 

(Signed)     MILTON  W.  HUMPHREYS. 


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Washington  and  Lee  University^ 
Lexington,  Va.,  January  3rd,  1911. 
We  give  our  heartiest  endorsement  to  the  proposed  plan  of 
Dr.  Sterrett,  and  sincerely  hope  that  some  endowed  institution 
may  make  this  one  of  its  chosen  ways  to  earn  the  gratitude  and 
approval  of  intelligent  men  the  world  over. 

(Signed)     GEORGE  H.  DENNY, 

President  of  Washington  and  Lee  University, 
J.  W.  KERN, 
JOHN  H.  LATANE, 
ADDISON  HOGUE. 

Union  Theological  Seminary, 

Richmond,  Va. 
It  is  hardly  a  question  that  rich  returns  would  ensue  and  of 
diverse  kinds.    I  confess  to  being  most  interested  in  the  possible 
geographical  and  historical  results. 

Professor  Sterrett  has  great  capabilities  as  an  explorer.  I 
believe  that  should  he  undertake  the  work  he  would  throw  him- 
self into  it  with  great  zeal,  and  would  display  in  its  conduct 
eminent  abilities  and  fitness.  Certainly  this  side  of  Sir  William 
Ramsay  I  know  of  no  man  from  whom  I  would  look  for  better 
results.  This  work  would  be  a  matter  of  interest,  importance 
and  pride  to  all  Americans. 

THOS.  C.  JOHNSON. 

University  of  North  Carolina, 

Chapel  Hill,  N.  C,  Feb.  4th,  1911. 
The  President  and  Classical    Faculty  of  the    University    of 
North  Carolina  emphatically  endorse  the  proposed  archaeologi- 
cal expedition  to  Asia  Minor. 

Such  an  expedition  would  be  most  fruitful  of  results  and 
would  contribute  largely  to  the  world  *s  knowledge,  not  only 
from  the  point  of  view  of  Greek  studies,  but  from  that  of 
studies  in  general.  All  investigations  that  contribute  to  a  better 
knowledge  of  ancient  life,  manners  and  customs  help  us  in  the 


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study  of  our  own  problems,  giving  us,  as  they  do,  a  surer  foun- 
dation and  a  wider  horizon. 

We  further  urge  the  appointment  of  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Ster- 
rett  as  director  of  this  expedition.  His  signal  success  in  this 
department,  his  profound  scholarship  and  his  unselfish  devotion 
to  his  work,  warrant  us  in  feeling  that  he  is  preeminently  fitted 
to  lead  such  an  undertaking  successfully. 

( Signed )     FRANCIS  P.  VENABLE, 

President  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
GEORGE  HOWE,  Latin, 
CHAS.  W.  BAIN,  Greek. 

University  of  North  Carolina. 

Please  let  me  say  that  I  approve  heartily  the  plan  proposed 
by  Dr.  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for  research  in  Asia  Minor.  The  work 
is  most  important,  and  he  is  the  ideal  man  to  do  it.  It  was  my 
fortune  to  know  him  and  to  see  his  work  during  a  year  when  I 
was  Minister  to  Greece,  so  that  I  do  not  speak  from  hearsay, 
though  I  have  heard  and  read  only  good  things  about  him  and 
his  work.  I  hope,  therefore,  that  some  well  endowed  institution 
may  consider  carefully  Dr.  Sterrett 's  plan,  and  if  possible  help 
him  to  carry  it  out. 

(Signed)     EBEN  ALEXANDER, 

Dean  and  Professor  of  Greek;  Sometime  United  States  Min- 
ister to  Greece.     (Deceased.) 

University  of  Georgia, 
Athens,  Georgia,  Feb.  18th,  1911. 
The  undersigned  professors  in  the  classical  and  historical  de- 
partments of  the  University  of  Georgia  cordially  endorse  the 
project  for  exploration  in  Asia  Minor  planned  by  Professor 
Sterrett,  and  beg  to  express  the  earnest  hope  that  it  will  re- 
ceive adequate  financial  support. 

(Signed)     WILLIS  H.  BOCOCK, 

Dean  of  the  Graduate  School, 
J.  H.  T.  McPHERSON, 


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W.  D.  HOOPER, 
W.  O.  PAYNE, 
R.  P.  BROOKS, 
R.  F.  McWHORTER. 

University  of  Mississippi, 
University,  Miss.,  February  28,  1911. 
We  are  in  the  heartiest  sympathy  with  the  project  for  archae- 
ological research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  outlined  by  the  dis- 
tinguished scholar.  Professor  Sterrett.     The  execution  of  his 
plan  will  mean  much  to  the  world  of  letters. 

(Signed)     FRANKLIN  L.  RILEY, 

WILLIAM  WILSON  BADEN, 
CALVIN  S.  BROWN, 
ALFRED  W.  MILDEN. 
A.  L.  BONDURANT. 

University  of  Mississippi, 
University,  Miss.,  February  28,  1911. 
The  moral  support  so  freely  accorded  Professor  Sterrett  by 
the  men  of  light  and  leading  in  the  classical  world  is  a  striking 
argument  in  favor  of  the  project  he  is  endeavoring  to  launch. 
The  logical  second  step  ought  now  to  be  taken  by  those  who 
have  the  means  to  place  the  enterprise  on  a  sound  basis  of 
finance.  Then  will  follow  the  interest  and  confidence  of  the 
larger  world. 

(Signed)     ALFRED  W.  MILDEN. 

The  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana, 

New  Orleans.  March  4,  1911. 
There  can  scarcely  be  any  divergence  of  opinion  regarding 
Professor  Sterrett 's  magnificent  plan  for  the  historical  and 
archaeological  study  of  the  surface  remains  of  Asia  Minor  and 
the  thorough  excavation  of  sites  all-important  to  our  knowledge 
not  only  of  the  civilization  of  the  Old  Testament  times,  of  Baby- 


—180— 

Ion,  Assyria,  Greece,  and  Rome,  but  also  of  the  beginnings  of 
Christianity.  It  is  in  its  scope  the  most  comprehensive  design 
ever  conceived  for  the  accomplishment  of  great  things  in  the 
investigation  of  the  past ;  it  is  most  rich  in  its  promise  of  valu- 
able results;  it  calls  not  merely  for  an  adequate  subvention 
from  a  richly  endowed  institution  or  a  very  wealthy  man — it  is 
an  opportunity  for  a  monumental  contribution  on  the  part  of 
an  institution  or  an  individual  to  the  sum  of  human  knowledge. 
Here  all  civilizations  have  met — Aryan,  Semitic,  Hittite,  Greek, 
Roman,  Christian — and  the  field  is  as  yet  practically  untouched. 
The  German  government  spent  a  very  large  sum  of  money  on 
the  excavations  at  Olympia  alone;  and  no  German  has  ever 
suggested  that  the  results  were  not  more  than  worth  the  cost. 
The  French  government  excavated  Delphi  at  an  enormous  ex- 
pense ;  and  there  is  no  Frenchman  who  does  not  look  upon  that 
achievement  with  the  same  pride  as  the  German  looks  upon 
the  excavation  of  Olympia.  Professor  Sterrett  brings  before 
Americans  of  great  wealth  and  the  great  American  institutions 
that  are  alone  capable  of  performing  the  task  a  grander  and 
far  more  promising  opportunity  than  all  the  others  have  been. 
It  will  cost  time  and  it  will  cost  money,  but  great  is  the  prize 
and  assured  is  the  hope.  Let  this  be  the  boast  and  the  glory  of 
American  enterprise! 

This  unique  opportunity  cannot  be  embraced  too  soon;  the 
need  is  urgent ;  destruction  threatens  much  of  the  material,  and 
the  danger  becomes  more  imminent  with  every  advance  of 
Young  Turkish  enterprise.  America  has  led  the  way  in  the 
Levant  with  teachers,  physicians,  and  missionaries.  And  now 
the  times  call  for  America  to  lead  the  way  in  that  land  in  sci- 
ience,  history,  geography,  and  antiquities.  The  world  has  been 
astounded  by  the  results  accomplished  by  even  the  spasmodic, 
sporadic  explorations  conducted  by  other  nations  and  individu- 
als in  Asia  Minor;  Dr.  Sterrett 's  plan  calls  for  continuous, 
all-embracing,  systematic,  thorough  excavation  and  investiga- 
tion from  the  home  of  Abraham  in  Ur  of  the  Chaldees  to  that  of 
Polycarp  in  Smyrna  and  James  in  Jerusalem. 

We  have  in  Dr.  Sterrett  just  the  leader  needed  for  this  work ; 
he  has  the  experience  of  the  veteran  in  the  field  of  research  in 


—181— 

Asia  Minor  combined  with  all  the  enthusiasm  of  the  crusaders 
to  recover  that  holy  land,  as  well  as  the  scientific  training  and 
ability  to  do  the  work  thoroughly  and  well.  Here  is  a  mission- 
ary, equipped  and  ready,  who  needs  sending  with  his  company 
of  co-workers,  and  we  look  confidently  to  Americans  to  meet 
liberally  the  need  and  the  opportunity. 

May  the  great  plan  in  its  entire  scope  find  approval  and  be 
pushed  to  a  speedy  realization. 

(Signed)     EDWIN  B.  CRAIGHEAD, 

President  of  the  Tulane  University  of 

Louisiana, 
WALTER  MILLER, 

Dean  of  the  Academic  Colleges, 
W.  B.  SMITH, 
EDWARD  A.  BECHTEL, 
HENRY  H.  STRAUSS, 
.   ALCeE  FORTIER, 
ROBERT  SHARP, 
MORTON  A.  ALDRICH, 
MARY  LEAL  HARKNESS, 
PIERCE  BUTLER, 
MELVIN  J.  WHITE, 
SUSAN  DINSMORE  TEW, 
ANDRE  BEZIAT  DE  BORDES, 
BRANDT  V.  B.  DIXON, 

President  of  Newcomb  College, 
WM.  WOODWARD, 
ELLSWORTH  WOODWARD, 

Director  of  the  Art  School,  New- 
comb  College. 

University  of  Texas, 

Office  of  the  Dean, 

Austin,  January  26,  1911. 
I  am  glad  to  add  my  name  to  the  list   of  those  who  believe 
that  the  investigation  of  the  antiquities  of  Asia  Minor  as  pro- 
posed by  Professor  Sterrett  will  be  productive  of  results  of  the 


—182— 

highest  value  for  the  history  of  civilization.  As  to  the  fitness  of 
Professor  Sterrett  to  undertake  this  work,  the  record  of  his 
investigations  and  publication  is  ample  testimony. 

(Signed)     W.  J.  BATTLE,  Dean. 


University  of  Texas. 
I  beg  to  say  that  I  believe  there  is  no  field  of  research  so 
likely  to  advance  our  knowledge  of  Ancient  History  in  one  of 
its  neglected  fields  as  a  thorough  archaeological  exploration  of 
the  Asia  Minor  region.  I  trust  a  way  may  be  found  to  en- 
courage effort  along  this  line. 

(Signed)     EDWIN  W.  FAY. 


University  of  Cincinnati, 

Office  of  the  President, 
The  sixteenth  of  January,  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven. 
We,  the  President  of  the  University  of  Cincinnati  and  the 
Professors  of  the  Sciences  which  treat  the  history  of  the  devel- 
opment of  civilization,  desire  to  express  our  keenest  interest  in 
the  plan  of  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  for  thorough  archaeologi- 
cal, historical,  and  geographical  researches  in  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria.  We  believe  that  no  country  offers  equal  opportunities 
for  obtaining  results  of  importance  for  the  solution  of  so  many 
of  the  most  fundamental  problems  which  hinder  the  investiga- 
tion of  the  origins  of  contemporary  society  and  culture.  We 
beg,  therefore,  to  endorse  the  petition  of  Professor  Sterrett  for 
an  ample  subvention  to  be  employed  in  research  and  excava- 
tions in  the  countries  mentioned. 

(Signed)     CHARLES  WM.  DABNEY, 

President  of  the  University  of  Cincinnati, 
MERRICK  WHITCOMB, 
J.  E.  HARRY, 
JOHN  M.  BURNAM, 
GEORGE  H.  ALLEN. 


—183— 

AVestern  Reserve  University, 

President's  Room, 
Cleveland,  4  January,  1911. 
I  am  glad  to  give  my  approval,  small  as  is  its  Avorth,  to  what- 
ever you  undertake,  and  in  particular  to  your  plan  for  research 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria. 

If  I  can  be  of  the  least  service,  pray  command  me. 
(Signed)     CHARLES  F.  THWING, 

President  of  Western  Reserve  University, 

Western  Reserve  University. 

The  thorough  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  will  do  more  than 
anything  else  can  do  toward  settling  the  questions  concerning 
the  origin  of  the  brilliant  culture  that  preceded  that  of  Greek 
times  in  the  Aegean  regions,  toward  tracing  the  migrations  of 
peoples  and  the  progress  of  civilization  in  the  period  before  the 
rise  of  Greek  civilization,  toward  determining  the  extent  and 
the  character  of  the  Greek  influence  on  Asiatics  after  Alexan- 
der's conquests,  toward  increasing  our  knoAvledge  of  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  Ionian  Empire,  and  toward  determining  the 
origin  and  early  progress  of  Christian  art,  especially  architec- 
ture. Such  exploration  should  be  undertaken  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible, because  with  the  building  of  railroads  and  the  conse- 
quently greater  ease  of  travel,  the  ruins  are  more  and  more  ex- 
posed to  destruction.  In  this  all  reports  from  various  parts  of 
the  Turkish  Empire  agree.  I  know  of  nothing  from  which  such 
important  results  for  the  knowledge  of  ancient  and  early 
mediaeval  history  can  be  expected  as  from  the  scientific  explora- 
tion, with  excavations,  of  Asia  Minor,  with  its  neighboring  land 
of  Syria. 

I  hope  Professor  Sterrett's  plan  will  receive  careful  consid- 
eration and  will  be  adopted  in  its  entirety. 

Allow  me  to  add  that  Professor  Sterrett  himself  has  shown 
market  ability  and  boundless  enthusiasm  as  an  explorer  in  Asia 
Minor. 

(Signed)     HAROLD  N.  FOWLER, 
Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Archaeology. 


—184— 

Western  Reserve  University. 
I  should  like  to  add  my  voice  in  hearty  support  of  the  pro- 
posed expedition  of  Professor  Sterrett  of  Cornell  to  Asia  Minor. 
Professor  Sterrett  is  our  most  experienced  investigator  along 
these  lines,  and  he  knows  exactly  v^^hat  he  wants  and  what  he 
can  do.  His  plan  is  a  large  one,  but  it  can  be  carried  out  and 
will  bring  credit  to  all  concerned. 

(Signed)     SAMUEL  BALL  PLATNER. 


Miami  University, 
Oxford,  Ohio,  Jan.  16,  1911. 

No  one  who  reads  Professor  Sterrett 's  Plan  for  Archaeologi- 
cal Research  in  Asia  Minor  can  fail  to  be  impressed  with  the 
importance  of  the  work,  and  be  convinced  that  the  plan  he 
recommends  is  the  only  one  by  which  it  can  be  worthily  ac- 
complished. It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  gain  to  sacred  and 
profane  history,  to  geography,  literature,  and  art  from  a  thor- 
ough, methodical  exploration  of  Asia  Minor.  The  present 
seems  a  favorable  time  for  the  undertaking;  there  is  urgent 
need  of  prompt  action;  the  precious  remains  of  antiquity  are 
rapidly  disappearing,  and  the  loss  can  never  be  repaired. 

Of  the  qualifications  of  Professor  Sterrett  to  organize  and 
conduct  research  work  on  so  extensive  a  scale  it  is  needless  for 
me  to  speak.  He  is  better  acquainted  with  the  territory  he  pro- 
poses to  explore  than  any  other  American;  he  has  had  long 
experience  in  archaeological  research,  and  the  value  of  his  con- 
tributions is  known  to  scholars  and  archaeologists  both  of  this 
country  and  of  Europe.  The  highest  authorities  heartily  ap- 
prove of  his  plan  and  unite  in  designating  him  as  the  one  who 
by  his  extensive  knowledge,  his  experience,  and  rare  combina- 
tion of  qualities  is  preeminently  fitted  to  carry  it  out  success- 
fully. 

(Signed)     A.  D.  HEPBURN, 

Former  President  of  Miami  University ;  former  President  of 
Davidson  College,  N.  C. 


—185— 

Miami  University, 
Oxford,  Ohio,  Jan.  16,  1911. 
We,  the  undersigned,  colleagues  and  friends  of  Dr.  Hepburn, 
heartily  concur  in  his  endorsement  of  Professor  Sterrett  and 
join  in  urging  the  grant  of  funds  for  the  support  of  an  enter- 
prise which  promises  so  much  for  the  advancement  of  knowl- 
edge and  the  credit  of  American  scholarship. 

JOHN  GRANT  NEWMAN,  President  of  Western  College, 
GEO.  W.  HOKE, 

GUY  POTTER  BENTON,  President  of  Miami  University, 
EDGAR   EWING   BRANDON,  Vice   President   of  Miami 

University, 
CHARLES  HART  HANDSCHIN, 
FRANK  DOWRY  CLARK. 

Ohio  Wesleyan  University, 

March  10,  1911. 
In  our  judgment  a  substantial  benefit  would  be  conferred  on 
the  cause  of  archaeological  research  by  making  appropriation 
for  such  work  in  Asia  Minor  as  Dr.  Sterrett  has  already  carried 
on  with  results  so  gratifying  to  the  scholarship  of  the  world. 
(Signed)     RICHARD  PARSONS, 
W.  W.  DAVIES, 
J.  C.  MESSICK, 
GRACE  STANLEY, 
SARAH  CORY  CAUTWELL. 

Ohio  Wesleyan  University, 

Delaware,  Ohio,  March  14,  1911. 
I  heartily  approve  the  plan  for  archaeological,  geographical 
and  historical  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  Much  valu- 
able light  upon  Biblical  and  historical  questions  may  be  ex- 
pected from  systematic  and  scientific  research  in  this  important 
territory. 

(Signed)     R.  B.  MILLER, 
Professor  of  Biblical  Literature  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan   Uni- 
versity. 


—186— 

Indiana  State  Library, 

Indianapolis. 
I  myself  have  known  Dr.  Sterrett  for  many  years  and  have 
also  been  a  member  of  the  Institute  in  Athens  and  feel  sure  that 
any  work  that  may  be  done  by  him  and  his  co-workers  will  be 
of  very  great  profit  to  American  scholars.  I  do  not  believe 
there  is  any  one  Inore  capable  of  doing  this  work  in  a  scientific 
way  than  Dr.  Sterrett,  and  for  the  credit  of  American  scholar- 
ship I  am  very  anxious  to  see  it  undertaken. 

(Signed)     DEMARCHUS  C.  BROWN. 

University  of  Illinois, 

President's  Office, 
Urbana-Champaign,  Illinois,  January  14,  1911. 

I  should  think  that  any  great  endowment  whose  purpose  is 
the  general  advancement  of  human  progress,  would  find  a  very 
good  use  indeed  for  a  portion  of  its  funds  in  making  possible 
the  great  plans  which  Professor  Sterrett  outlines  for  systematic 
archaeological  exploration  in  Asia  Minor. 

Nothing  is  surer  in  this  world  than  the  fact  that  after  a  pro- 
gressive people  has  once  provided  for  the  bare  necessaries  of 
life,  it  will  begin  to  reach  out  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  things 
of  the  spirit. 

This  is  beginning  to  be  true  in  a  very  marked  degree  of  our 
American  people.  We  are  reaching  out  in  many  directions  to 
develop  the  taste  for  spiritual  things  and  to  create  a  means  of 
gratifying  that  taste. 

I  know  of  no  more  fundamental,  universal  spiritual  quality 
than  the  impulse  which  leads  us  to  try  to  explain  how  we  came 
to  be  what  we  are,  i.e.,  in  a  large  way  to  understand  human 
history.  Even  here  in  the  United  States,  out  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley,  we  are  beginning  to  recognize  more  fully  than  ever  be- 
fore how  far  back  into  the  remote  periods  of  the  past  can  be 
traced  the  roots  of  our  present  day  civilization.  Every  thought- 
ful and  aspiring  mind  must  experience  a  real  longing  to  under- 
stand the  course  of  human  development.    But   the   course   of 


—187— 

human  development  can  be  understood  only  when  we  have  be- 
fore us  all  the  data  necessary  to  trace  out  the  growth  of  civili- 
zation from  barbarism.  In  tracing  out  this  long  development 
of  human  history  nothing  will  be  more  helpful  than  a  complete 
record  of  the  early  civilizations  about  the  Mediterranean.  I 
presume  we  shall  never  acquire  the  information  necessary  to 
get  a  clear  picture  of  this  progress  in  civilization,  but  at  any 
rate  every  little  helps  and  a  thorough  canvas  of  Asia  Minor  and 
its  resources  would  undoubtedly  add  greatly  to  that  knowledge 
of  the  past  which  would  be  such  a  great  satisfaction  to  the 
deeper  instincts  of  our  nature. 

I  trust  that  Professor  Sterrett  may  succeed  in  interesting 
American  wealth  in  his  great  plan  and  I  wish  I  could  go  along 
and  carry  the  chain  for  him  Avhile  he  is  prosecuting  some  of  his 
interesting  investigations. 

(Signed)     EDMUND  J.  JAMES, 

President  of  the  University  of  Illinois. 


The  University  of  Chicago, 
Editorial  Office  of  "Classical  Philology." 

Chicago,  January  7,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett 's  colleagues  here  cordially  sympathize 
with  his  proposed  expedition  and  concur  in  the  conclusive 
arguments  in  support  of  it  sufficiently  set  forth  in  the  testi- 
monials which  he  has  already  received.  I  myself,  though  not 
an  archaeologist,  am  constantly  in  need  of  the  knowledge  of 
Asia  Minor  which  we  do  not  now  possess,  which  the  proposed 
expedition  would  almost  certainly  bring  us  and  which  it  would 
in  many  cases  save  from  being  lost  to  humanity  forever. 

(Signed)     PAUL  SHORE Y, 
President  of  the  American  Philological  Association,  1910. 


—188— 

The  University  of  Chicago, 

Chicago,  Jan.  7,  1911. 
The  plan  put  forward  by  Professor  Sterrett  for  research  in 
Asia  Minor  is  a  magnificent  one,  which  must  arouse  the  en- 
thusiasm of  every  one  interested  in  human  history.  The  reali- 
zation of  this  plan  would  be  a  great  achievement  for  our 
country. 

(Signed)     FRANK  BIGELOW  TARBELL, 
Professor  of  Archaeology. 

University  of  Chicago, 

Chicago,  Jan.  24,  1911. 
The  labor  and  the  spirit  of  research  Professor  Sterrett  dis- 
plays commands  my  admiration.  I  heartily  wish  the  plan  will 
be  realized.  I  am  a  student  of  European  History,  i.e..  Mediaeval 
and  Modern.  But  the  roots  of  mediaeval  (history)  go  so  deep 
into  the  past  that  I  have  done  a  large  amount  of  reading  in  the 
history  of  the  Greek  and  Roman  world,  and  my  travel  in  Medi- 
terranean lands  has  quickened  my  interest  in  archaeology. 

There  is  no  more  important  scientific  project  in  the  world 
today  than  this  one,  and  none  which  would  be  of  equal  cultural 
benefit  to  mankind.  Professor  Sterrett  has  my  heartiest  sym- 
pathy and  unbounded  admiration. 

(Signed)     JAMES  WESTFALL  THOMPSON. 

Northwestern  University, 
Evanston,  Illinois,  Jan.  21,  1911. 
'    The  undersigned  desire  to  express  their  endorsement  of  the 
plans  for  the  thorough  scientific  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  as 
outlined  by  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  of  Cornell  University. 
(Signed)     ABRAM  W.  HARRIS, 

President  of  Northwestern  University, 
CHARLES  J.  LITTLE, 

President  of  Garrett  Biblical  Institute, 
THOMAS  F.  HOLGATE, 

Dean  College  Liberal  Arts, 


—ISO- 
DANIEL  BONBRIGHT,  Dean  Emeritus, 
0.  F.  LONG,  Latin, 
F.  C.  EISELEN,  Semitic  Languages, 
D.  A.  HAYES,  N.  T.  Exegesis, 
JOHN  A.  SCOTT,  Greek, 
ROY  C.  FLICKINGER,  Greek, 
ANDREW  R.  ANDERSON,  Latin. 

University  of  Michigan, 

Ann  Arbor,  Jan.  10,  1911. 

From  my  acquaintance  with  Asia  Minor  I  think  I  am  justified 
in  saying  that  if  an  adequate  fund  for  extensive  archaeological 
research  is  available,  no  more  promising  field  for  its  use  can  be 
found  than  that  portion  of  the  Ottoman  Empire.  Professor 
Sterrett  has  already  achieved  such  success  in  several  expedi- 
tions in  that  region  that  he  is  exceptionally  prepared  to  con- 
tinue similar  work. 

I  should  be  delighted  if  something  more  could  be  done  to  re- 
veal the  Hittite  civilization  to  us.  Like  the  Etruscan  it  waits  to 
be  interpreted. 

(Signed)     JAMES  R.  ANGELL, 

President  Emeritus  of  the  University  of  Michigan ;  Sometime 
U.  S.  Minister  to  Turkey. 

University  of  Michigan, 
Ann  Arbor,  January  18,  1911. 

Dr.  Sterrett 's  proposal  to  undertake  explorations  and  excava- 
tions in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  on  a  broad  scale  not  hitherto 
attempted,  and  for  an  indefinitely  protracted  period,  leads  us 
to  express  the  hope  that  he  may  be  speedily  furnished  with  the 
means  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of  his  purpose. 

To  those  regions  the  eyes  of  all  scholars  interested  in  histori- 
cal studies,  ancient  literatures,  linguistic  science,  art,  religion 
ancient  and  modern,  anthropology,  humanistic  studies  in  gen- 
eral, as  well  as  some  of  the  technically  called  modern  sciences, 
are  at  present  turned.    In  all  of  these  fields  lie  problems  whose 


—190— 

further  advancement  towards  solution  awaits  the  unearthing  of 
the  rich  material  now^  buried  for  the  most  part  in  hundreds  of 
Tells  between  the  Bosphorus  and  the  Tigris. 

The  student  of  primitive  Christianity,  as  well  as  the  Old  Testa- 
ment, longs  for  an  adequate  knowledge  of  the  Cults  of  "Western 
Asia.  Of  the  Hittite  Empire,  the  intermediary  doubtless  in 
many  ways  between  Babylon  and  Greece,  we  known  as  yet  prac- 
tically nothing,  though  confident  that  the  native  tablets  and 
monumental  records  we  desire  are  to  be  had  for  the  searching,  as 
"Winckler  's  tentative  efforts  at  Boghaz-Koi  alone  suffice  to  show. 
Imagine  the  treasures  to  be  had  in  this  virgin  territory  where 
an  observer  standing  upon  the  mound  of  one  buried  city  can 
count  others  by  the  score !  Over  two  thousand  years  of  human 
history,  of  Babylonians  and  Assyrians,  of  Hittites,  Syrians,  the 
native  peoples  of  Asia  Minor,  Greeks,  Romans,  etc.,  may  be  illu- 
minated with  an  unexpected  light. 

Dr.  Sterrett's  past  achievements  in  this  field,  his  scholarship, 
practical  sense,  and  strong  personality,  and  not  least  the  regnant 
ideal  that  moves  him  to  contemplate  an  undertaking  so  arduous 
and  even  perilous  are  the  best  guarantees  that  no  better  director 
could  be  chosen. 

(Signed)     JAMES  A.  CRAIG, 

CAMPBELL  BONNER, 
HENRY  A.  SANDERS, 
MARTIN  L.  D'OOGE, 
JOHN  O.  REED, 

Dean   of   the   College   of   Literature, 
Science  and  Arts. 
J.  G.  WINTER, 
R.  M.  WENLEY, 
H.  B.  HUTCHINS, 

President    of    the    University    of 
Michigan. 


—191— 

University  of  Michigan. 

Permit  me  to  express  the  hope  that  a  grant  be  made  for  at 
least  a  part,  if  not  for  the  whole,  of  the  plan  for  the  Exploration 
of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  as  outlined  by  Professor  Sterrett  of 
Cornell. 

It  is  my  confident  belief  that  important  results  would  accrue 
to  science  and  knowledge  from  the  projects  outlined  by  him, 
results  that  would  warrant  the  expenditure  required  and  that 
would  reflect  honor  upon  the  Institution  that  supports  it. 
(Signed)     MARTIN  L.  D'OOGE. 

P.  S.  Let  me  add  from  what  I  know  of  Dr.  Sterrett  personally 
and  of  his  previous  work  in  Asia  Minor  I  have  the  fullest  confi- 
dence in  his  ability  as  a  scholar  and  as  a  leader  to  conduct  such 
an  exploration  successfully.  M.  L.  D. 

University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison,  Wis.,  January  14,  1911. 
The  undersigned  members  of  the  faculty  of  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  join  heartily  in  support  of  Professor  Sterrett 's 
appeal  for  a  Subvention  for  Surface  Research  and  for  Excava- 
tions in  Asia  Minor.  There  can  be  no  question  that  Asia  Minor 
is  now  the  field  offering  greatest  promise  for  further  light  upon 
the  early  history  of  mankind,  and  the  unanimity  with  which  this 
appeal  is  supported  by  the  best  scholars  of  the  whole  civilized 
world  would  seem  to  prove  not  only  the  importance  of  the  vast 
undertaking  but  also  the  preeminent  fitness  of  Professor  Sterrett 
to  conduct  the  work. 

(Signed)     CHARLES  FORSTER  SMITH, 
M.  S.  SLAUGHTER, 
GRANT  SHOWERMAN, 
DANA  C.  MUNRO, 
CARL  RUSSELL  FISH, 
G.  C.  SELLERY, 
ALFRED  L.  P.  DENNIS, 
FREDERIC  L.  PAXSON, 
W.  L.  WESTERMANN, 


—192— 

A.  G.  LAIRD, 
Gr.  C.  FISKE. 
Approved,   CHARLES  R.  VAN  HISE,  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin. 

The  University  of  Minnesota, 

President's  Office, 
Minneapolis,  January  26,  1911. 
I  have  been  greatly  interested  in  reading  Dr.  J.  R.  S.  Ster- 
rett's  plan  for  Archaeological,  historical  and  geographical  re- 
search in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  It  seems  to  me  that  if  the  plan 
is  carried  out,  it  will  result  in  securing  a  vast  amount  of  buried 
material  that  would  be  invaluable  as  throwing  light  on  the  past ; 
and  I  believe  Dr.  Sterrett  to  be  eminently  well  qualified  to 
carry  out  the  plan  successfully  and  I  think  he  should  receive 
the  earnest  support  of  all  scholars  in  his  effort  to  secure  the 
funds  necessary  for  the  undertaking. 

(Signed)  CYRUS  NORTHROP,  President  of  the  University  of 
Minnesota. 

The  University  of  Minnesota, 
Minneapolis,  January  18,  1911. 

We,  the  undersigned,  members  of  the  faculty  of  the  College 
of  Science,  Literature  ar^d  the  Arts  of  the  University  of  Minne- 
sota, heartily  endorse  Professor  Sterrett 's  efforts  to  obtain  sup- 
port for  scientific  exploration,  excavation  and  research  in  Syria 
and  Asia  Minor.  We  are  deeply  impressed  with  the  necessity 
and  importance  of  such  work,  with  its  truly  altruistic  character, 
for  it  means  the  opening  up  of  new  mines  of  knowledge  and 
truth  to  the  world. 

The  excavation  thus  far  carried  on  in  Mesopotamia  and  cer- 
tain spots  of  Asia  Minor,  and  the  results  obtained,  have  shown 
the  learned  world  how  important  such  work  is  for  the  advance- 
ment of  our  knowledge  of  the  development  of  the  world's  cul- 
ture. Many  a  chapter  has  been  added  to  the  history  of  the 
world;  the  story,  though  fragmentary,  of  many  an  empire  can 


—193— 

now  be  told  of  which  in  the  not  very  distant  past  only  the 
name  was  known.  But  so  far  only  a  beginning  has  been  made, 
and  the  mounds  of  Asia  Minor  in  particular  contain  treasures 
of  untold  value  to  the  scientific  world  which  are  yet  to  be 
brought  to  light.  We  therefore  hope  that  Professor  Sterrett's 
efforts  will  be  crowned  with  abundant  success. 

(Signed)     JOHN  CORRIN  HUTCHINSON, 

CHARLES  ALBERT  SAVAGE, 

J.  S.  CLARK, 

C.  W.  BENTON, 

NORMAN  WILDE, 

S.  N.  DEINARD, 

CARL  SCHLENKER, 

GEO.  N.  BAUER, 

FRANK  MALOY  ANDERSON, 

WILLIAM  STEARNS  DAVIS, 

ALBERT  ERNEST  JENKS, 

GISLE  BOTHNE, 

HARDIN  CRAIG, 

EDWARD  VAN  DYKE  ROBINSON,. 

JOHN  G.  MOORE, 

JOSEPH  B.  PIKE. 

The  University  of  Nebraska, 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  February  8,  1911. 

We  give  our  most  hearty  endorsement  to  the  great  under- 
taking proposed  by  Professor  J,  R.  S.  Sterrett  of  an  exhaustive 
archaeological  exploration  of  Asia  Minor  and  Syria. 

This  -work,  methodically  and  scientifically  carried  out,  must 
inevitably  make  many  and  important  additions  to  the  world's 
knowledge  of  the  past. 

Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  for  at  least  three  thousand  years,  were 
the  theatre  where  many  great  civilizations  successively  played 
their  parts.  In  this  region  dwelt  that  great  pre-Hellenic  people, 
the  Hittites,  the  revelation  of  whose  history  and  culture  is  now 
forming  an  entirely  new  volume  of  human  knowledge.  There 
is   furthermore   good   reason   for   confident   hope   that   in   the 


—194- 


ruins  of  the  famous  Greek  and  Roman  cities  of  Ionia,  Caria,  and 
Cilicia  there  lie  untouched  many  treasures  of  the  utmost  value 
to  classical  learning;  while  in  the  fields  of  early  Christian  and 
Byzantine  art  and  life  new  and  illuminating  discoveries  are  to 
be  expected  from  a  systematic  search  such  as  this  plan  pro- 
poses. 

The  scheme  is  gigantic  in  its  scope,  but  with  the  facilities  of 
modern  science,  the  permanent  enlistment  in  the  work  of 
trained  specialists  in  the  various  fields  of  research,  and  under 
so  experienced  and  competent  a  director-general  as  Dr.  Ster- 
rett  the  project  is  perfectly  feasible.  The  plan  has  received 
the  endorsement  of  nearly  every  scholar  of  prominence  in 
Europe  whose  work  lies  along  these  lines,  and  since  the  work 
promises  such  rich  and  varied  results,  and  the  need  of  imme- 
diate action  is  so  urgent  we  join  in  recommending  that  an  ade- 
quate support  be  given  this  undertaking  for  a  term  of  at  least 
twenty  years. 

(Signed)     J.  T.  LEES, 
WM.  F.  DANN. 

To  Chancellor  Avery, 

The  University  of  Nebraska. 

The  University  of  Nebraska, 

Chancellor's  Office, 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  February  8,  1911. 
I  am  pleased  to  give  my  cordial  endorsement  to  the  general 
plan,  and  to  express  my  confidence  in    the    judgment    of    my 
esteemed  colleagues,  Professors  Lees  and  Dann. 
(Signed)     S.  AVERY, 

Chancellor     of    the     University      of 
Nebraska. 

University  of  Missouri, 
Columbia,  Mo.,  January  4,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett's  proposition  to  secure  a  fund  for  archae- 
ological,  historical   and   geographical   research   in   Asia   Minor 


—195— 

and  Syria  seems  to  us  to  be  a  matter  of  the  greatest  importance 
and  one  that  should  meet  a  hearty  response  from  all  persons 
interested  in  Ancient  History  and  Life.  We,  therefore,  take 
pleasure  in  commending  most  heartily  the  movement  and 
pledge  our  earnest  cooperation. 

(Signed)     W.  G.  MANLY, 

G.  C.  SCOGGIN, 

J.  C.  JONES, 

EVA  JOHNSTON, 

N.  M.  TRENHOLME, 

JOHN  PICKARD, 

JONAS  VILES, 

E.  B.  BRANSON, 

E.  H.  RIEDEL, 

A.  T.  OLMSTEAD, 

University  of  Missouri, 
Columbia,  Mo.,  March  20,  1911. 

I  wish  to  express  my  heartiest  sympathy  with  Professor  Ster- 
rett's  effort  to  secure  for  us  American  scholars  the  honor  of 
being  the  first  to  place  on  a  permanent,  and  therefore  efficient 
basis,  the  exploration  of  the  Nearer  East.  I  have  been  amazed 
at  the  unanimity  with  which  foreign  scholars  of  all  schools  have 
urged  the  necessity  of  the  work  and  have  promised  cooperation, 
and  I  am  sure  that  Americans  will  feel  that  they  cannot  afford 
to  show  themselves  less  eager  for  the  success  of  the  project. 

The  foreign  supporters  of  the  project  have  again  and  again 
urged  the  need  of  haste.  Three  years  of  archaeological  ex- 
perience in  the  lands  of  the  Eastern  Mediterranean  have  made 
this  fact  only  too  painfully  evident  to  me.  For  example,  at  one 
place  we  found  an  inscription  dug  out  that  day  by  the  natives, 
one  corner  of  which  had  already  been  chipped  away.  In  the 
fading  light,  we  made  as  good  a  copy  as  the  conditions  would 
allow,  and  the  stone  went  into  the  lime  Mln.  For  one  inscrip- 
tion which  is  thus  barely  rescued,  no  one  knows  how  many  are 
daily  lost.  Nor  is  this  loss  of  minor  moment.  Only  those  who 
have  attempted  to  study  the  history  of  Western  Asia  from  the 


— 196-- 

sources  can  realize  how  very  little  we  really  know.  Our  so- 
called  history  is  still  largely  conjecture,  based  often  on  the 
most  inadequate  material.  Critical  study  of  what  little  we  have 
is  indeed  doubly  necessary  in  the  poverty  of  our  sources,  but 
one  small  excavation,  or  even  a  field  trip,  will  often  add  far 
more  to  our  knowledge  than  years  of  study  in  the  library.  Real' 
advances  in  our  knowledge  of  the  history  of  these  countries  can 
come  only  from  new  material.  That  new  material  is  being 
brought  to  light  constantly  by  native  diggers,  but  it  is  at  once 
destroyed  and  is  lost  to  us  for  ever.  Unless  work  such  as  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett  advocates  is  undertaken,  and  that  too  very  soon, 
a  real  history  of  the  Ancient  Orient  will  remain  for  all  time,  as 
it  certainly  is  now,  an  utter  impossibility. 

With  the  hope  that  America  may  soon  have  taken  away  the 
reproach  of  comparative  indifference  to  archaeological  work,  I 
remain, 

(Signed)     A.  T.  OLMSTEAD. 

Washington  University, 
Saint  Louis,  Mo.,  March  22,  1911. 
We  are  exceedingly  glad  that  a  systematic  attempt  is  con- 
templated   for   the    scientific     exploration     and    discovery     of 
ancient  sites  in  Asia  Minor. 

The  need  of  a  substantial  grant  of  money  is  testified  by  the 
many  known  problems  of  importance  still  awaiting  solution. 

That  Prof.  Sterrett  is  the  man  best  appointed  for  the  task 
by  training  and  experience  we  assume  entirely  and  wish  him 
great  success  in  this  most  laudable  endeavor. 

(Signed)  FREDERIC  A.  HALL, 
GEORGE  R.  THROOP. 

The  State  University  of  Iowa, 

College  of  Liberal  Arts, 
Iowa  City,  la.,  February  11,  1911. 
The  undersigned  endorse  most  heartily  Professor  Sterrett 's 
plan  for  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.     The  project  seems 
to  us  wisely  conceived  and  worthy  to  receive  the  ungrudging 


—197— 

sympathy  of  all  persons  who  are  interested  in  matters  of  the 
spirit.  As  to  his  own  fitness  to  execute  the  plan,  we  are 
entirely  assured.  American  scholars  will  be  grateful  and  proud 
if  it  should  be  made  possible  for  this  broad  and  altruistic  under- 
taking to  be  realized. 

(Signed)     GEORGE  E.  MACLEAN, 

President  of  the  State  University  of 
Iowa. 
WM.  C.  WILCOX, 

Dean   and  Professor  of  History. 
F.  C.  EASTMAN,  Latin, 
FRANKLIN  H.  POTTER,  Latin, 
GEORGE  M.  SHARRARD,  Latin, 
CHARLES  HEALD   WELLER, 

Greek  and  Archaeology. 

Cornell  College, 

Mt.  Vernon,  Iowa. 
I  commend  the  proposed  plan  of  Professor  J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  in 
relation  to  exploration  and  excavation  in  Asia  Minor.  The 
importance  and  richness  of  the  fields  are  well  put  in  Professor 
Sterrett 's  published  proposal,  and  there  is  nobody  in  this  coun- 
try, I  believe,  who  is  so  w^ell  prepared  as  he  for  this  under- 
taking. My  estimate  of  him  is  based  upon  his  past  work  as  a 
scholar  and  upon  a  season's  travel  and  work  with  him  in 
Greece. 

The  expedition  he  proposes  would  render  great  service  to 
the  world  and  would  reflect  great  credit  upon  American  schol- 
arship and  enterprise. 

(Signed)     W.  S.  EBERSOLE. 

University  of  Colorado. 
I  should  like  to  take  the  liberty  of  stating  my  opinion  that 
money  spent  upon  an  intelligent  excavation  of  carefully  selected 
portions  of  Asia  Minor  would  be  well  invested  and  would  yield 
rich  returns. 

(Signed)     B.  R.  HELLEMS. 


—198— 

University  of  California, 

Office  of  the  President, 
Berkeley,  California,  February  13,  1911. 
Professor  Sterrett's  plan  for  research  in  Asia  Minor  is  ad- 
mirable.   I  hope  it  may  be  carried  out.    We  ought  long  ere  this 
to  have  utilized  Professor  Sterrett's  unique  fitness  for  this 
work. 

I  am  glad  to  say  that  I  approve  totally  and  utterly  of  the 
plan. 

(Signed)     BENJ.  IDE  WHEELER, 

President  of  the  University  of  California. 

University  of  California, 

Berkeley,  CaL,  Jan.  5,  1911. 
The  undersigned,  professors  in  the  University  of  California, 
heartily  and  unreservedly  endorse  the  project  of  Professor  Ster- 
rett  for  the  thorough  exploration  of  Asia  Minor. 

(Signed)     EDWARD  BULL  CLAPP, 
WILLIAM  A.  MERRILL, 
JAMES  TURNEY  ALLEN, 
IVAN  M.  LINFORTH, 
LEON  J.  RICHARDSON, 
WILLIAM  POPPER, 
CLIFTON  PRICE. 

Leland  Stanford  Junior  University, 

Stanford  University,  California,  Feb.  12,  1911. 

I  am  convinced  that  it  is  precisely  from  further  exploration  in 

Asia  Minor  that  the  most  valuable  help  for  the  settlement  of  the 

most  important  problems  of  early  European  history  is  to  be 

looked  for. 

I  am  very  glad  to  give  the  project  my  unqualified  endorse- 
ment. If  carried  out  on  a  large  scale  finds  of  immense  signifi- 
cance are  certain  to  be  made,  and  great  credit  w^ould  be  due  to 
America  for  carrying  out  so  important  a  work. 

(S'igned)     A.  T.  MURRAY. 


—199— 

Queens  University, 
Kingston,  Canada,  January  11th,  1911. 

We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  staff  of  Queens  Uni- 
versity, beg  leave  to  record  our  hearty  sympathy  with  the  peti- 
tion of  Professor  Sterrett,  that  a  grant  be  made  for  archaeo- 
logical and  historical  research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria.  The 
labours  of  archaeologists  in  various  parts  of  the  world  have 
yielded  in  recent  times  valuable  and  sometimes  brilliant  addi- 
tions to  our  knowledge  of  the  past  history  of  mankind,  but  it 
may  confidently  be  said  that  in  no  region  have  the  results  ob- 
tained been  comparable  with  those  which  may  be  expected  from 
such  work  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  undertaken  by  experts 
equipped  with  adequate  resources.  The  work  already  done  by 
Sir  William  Ramsay  and  others  has  thrown  light  on  many  a 
dark  corner  of  history,  but  that  light  is  dim  indeed  compared 
with  what  the  near  future  may  bring  forth.  The  beginnings  of 
nations,  the  progress  of  mankind,  the  lives  and  customs  of  peo- 
ples, many  of  which  have  for  us  sacred  associations  which  make 
our  ignorance  of  them  all  the  more  tantalizing,  the  birth  of 
Hellenic  and  other  civilisations, — all  these  may  be  elucidated 
through  the  timely  assistance  of  a  generous  hand.  The  outcome 
would  probably  surpass  our  wildest  dreams.  Surely  no  project 
before  the  educated  world  to-day  is  more  worthy  of  support. 

There  are  many  highly-trained  and  zealous  archaeologists 
ready  to  tackle  the  work.  "There  is  no  time  like  the  present'* 
for  such  an  enterprise.  The  march  of  civilisation  and  the  wear 
and  tear  of  the  years  are  fast  burying  or  effacing  forever  the 
precious  monuments  of  bygone  ages.  We  would  respectfully 
submit  that  of  all  the  channels  in  which  a  large-hearted  gener- 
osity could  distribute  itself,  none  could  be  more  worthy,  none 
more  honorable  to  the  American  nation  than  the  scheme  pro- 
jected by  Professor  Sterrett,  and  we  may  add  that  the  name  of 
the  petitioner  is  a  sure  guarantee  that  the  scheme  will  be  effi- 
ciently executed,  should  the  means  be  forthcoming. 
(Signed)     DANIEL  M.  GORDON, 

Vice-Chancellor  and  Principal, 
W.  B.  ANDERSON, 
G.  W.  MITCHELL. 


—200— 

University  of  Toronto, 

Toronto,  Jany.  12th,  1911. 
We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  staff  of  the  University 
of  Toronto,  unite  in  adding  our  recommendations  to  those  al- 
ready given  by  other  great  Universities,  and  by  many  indi- 
vidual scholars  of  world-wide  authority,  in  favour  of  Professor 
Sterrett's  proposal  in  connection  with  archaeological  explora- 
tion in  Syria  and  Asia  Minor. 

We  believe  that  the  science  of  archaeology,  and  human 
knowledge  generally,  would  gain  greatly,  if  a  body  controlling 
funds  could  be  induced  to  aid  in  a  substantial  manner  the  un- 
dertaking in  question ;  and  at  the  same  time  that  body,  because 
of  its  generous  assistance,  would  receive  the  approbation  of  all 
those  interested  in  the  advance  of  historical  science. 
Signed)     ROBT.  A.  FALCONER, 

President  of  the  University  of  Toronto. 

MAURICE  BUTTON,  Principal, 

J.  FLETCHER, 

G.  0.  SMITH, 

G.  W.  JOHNSTON, 

W.  S.  MILNER, 

J.  C.  ROBERTSON, 

A.  J.  BELL, 

A.  CARRUTHERS. 


McGill  University, 
Montreal,  4th  January,  1911. 
An  endowed  institution  will  be  doing  an  epoch-making  piece 
of  work  if  it  should  find  it  possible  to  grant  a  large  and  long 
continued  subvention  for  the  carrying  out  of  Professor  Ster- 
rett's  project.  Excavation  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria  has  the 
great  attraction  that  it  enables  us  to  fill  in  what  have  been 
shown  to  be  positive  gaps  in  our  historical  knowledge ;  and  as 
we  believe  that  the  future  has  great  things  in  store  with  which 
to  reward  patient  and  well-directed  investigation,  we  are  glad 


—201— 

to  have  the  opportunity  of  joining  our  testimony,  to  that    of 
others  in  support  of  Professor  Sterrett's  proposals. 
(Signed)     W.  PETERSON, 

Principal  of  McGill  University, 
JOHN  MACNAUGHTON, 
A.  JUDSON  EATON. 

McGill  University, 
Montreal,  January  6,  1911. 
I  must  send  you  a  personal  line  to  congratulate  you  on  hav- 
ing conceived  so  important  a  project  and  to  express  the  hope 
that  you  wiU.  be  seuccessful  in  carrying  it  through.  I  am  one 
of  those  who  have  great  hopes  for  the  future  in  connection  with 
the  work  of  excavation. 

(Signed)     W.  PETERSON,  Principal  of  McGill  University. 

Dalhousie  College, 
Halifax,  N.  S.,  January  14,  1911. 
I  am  heartily  in  sympathy  with  Professor  Sterrett's  proposed 
scheme  for  archaeological  and  historical  research  in  Asia 
Minor,  and  I  sincerely  hope  that  his  appeal  for  funds  for  carry- 
ing out  a  work  of  such  profound  interest  and  importance  may 
meet  with  a  generous  response. 

(Signed)     HOWARD  MURRAY,  Dean  of  Dalhousie  College. 

Wellesley  College, 

March  30th,  1911. 
The  field  is  a  rich  one  and  such  an  expedition  as  that  pro- 
posed seems  to  us  likely  to  be  fruitful  in  results  for  geographi- 
cal and  classical  and  allied  subjects. 

Professor  Sterrett's  own  extended  experience  as  a  traveller 
and  an  archaeologist  has  rendered  him  peculiarly  well  fitted  to 
conduct  the  expedition  with  success.  We  feel  confident  that 
under  his  efficient  leadership  it  will  prove  an  honor  to  American 
scholarship. 

(Signed)     ANGIE  CLARA  CHAPIN,  M.  A., 

ANNIE  SYBIL  MONTAGUE,  M.  A., 
KATHARINE  MAY  EDWARDS,  Ph.D. 
Professors  of  Greek  in  Wellesley  College. 


—202— 

Society  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  above  Society,  held  in  New  York  City, 
December  31st,  1910,  the  following  resolution  was  recommended 
by  the  Council,  and  was  then  unanimously  adopted  by  the 
Society : 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  endorse  the  petition  of  Professor 
J.  R.  S.  Sterrett  of  Cornell  University  for  an  appropriation 
sufficient  to  carry  out  a  project  for  exploration  and  excavation 
in  Asia  Minor  and  Northern  Syria. 

A  true  copy.    Attest, 

(Signed)     WM.  H.  COBB,  Recording  Secretary. 
Boston,  March  16,  1911. 

Archaeological  Institute  of  America, 

Office  of  the  General  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  January  11,  1911. 
I  beg  to  add  my  hearty  endorsement  to  the  many  testimonials 
Professor  Sterrett  has  received  in  regard  to  the  project  for 
research  in  Asia  Minor  and  Syria,  so  convincingly  stated  in  the 
pamphlet  issued  by  him.  I  feel  that  a  large  sum  of  money 
could  be  most  wisely  spent  in  carrying  through  this  project, 
and  all  younger  archaeologists  are  happy  to  recognize  Professor 
Sterrett 's  preeminence  in  this  field. 

(Signed)     MITCHELL  CARROLL. 

The  Independent, 
Editorial  Rooms, 
New  York,  January  5,  1911. 
I  have  read  with  great  interest  Professor  Sterrett 's  scheme 
for  a  campaign  of  excavation  in  Asia  Minor.     I  greatly  rejoice 
in  the  possibility  that  it  may  be  translated  into  actuality. 

Egypt  has  been  explored  and  excavated  for  a  hundred  years. 
Probably  the  bulk  of  information  there  has  been  secured, 
although  unexpected  discoveries  may  there  turn  up  at  any 
time,  as  at  Elephantine.  In  the  Euphrates  and  Tigris  valleys 
the  explorers  have  been  at  work,  French,  English,  German,  and 


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American,  for  fifty  years,  and  at  least  the  outlines  of  Baby- 
lonian and  Assyrian  history  have  been  secured,  and  of  art  and 
religion  as  well,  with  not  a  little  of  the  history  of  the  neighbor- 
ing countries.  East,  West,  and  North.  But  we  have  hardly  put 
the  spade  into  the  mounds  of  Asia  Minor,  really  at  only  two  or 
three  sites,  but  how  rich  the  results  in  those  cases ! — the  Hittite 
capital  at  Boghaz-Keui,  with  its  treaty  with  Egypt,  and  its 
mention  of  Aryan  deities,  and  farther  west  in  Cilicia  the  statues 
and  long  inscriptions  of  Aramaean  kings.  These  are  the  first 
fruits,  and  the  richest  archaeological  field  in  the  world  is  be- 
fore us,  almost  untouched.  It  would  be  magnificent  if  America 
could  have  the  honor  of  attempting  this  service  to  the  world,  as 
great  as  our  scholarship  could  desire. .  And  I  believe  that  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett  could  do  it.  He  has  experience,  and  he  has 
quiet  enthusiasm  and  perseverance.  I  knew  him  as  my  asso- 
ciate in  the  Wolfe  Expedition  to  Babylonia  in  1884-5,  and  then 
recognized  his  fitness  for  such  work.  No  one  would  be  more 
delighted  than  I,  if  such  a  plan  could  find  support,  with  Pro- 
fessor Sterrett  as  its  leader. 

(Signed)     WILLIAM  HAYES  WARD, 
Leader  of  the  Wolfe  Expedition    to    Babylonia.     President 
American  Oriental  Society  in  1909-10.    Author  of  The  Seal  Cyl- 
inders of  Western  Asia. 


St.  Michael's  Church, 
New  York,  January  6,  1911. 

Certainly  there  is  no  part  of  the  world  Avhich  gives  greater 
promise  of  important  results  from  exploration  and  excavation 
than  Asia  Minor.  To  those  of  us  who  have  been  working  on 
the  history  of  ancient  civilization,  it  has  seemed  for  some  time 
as  though  Asia  Minor  holds  the  key  which  will  unlock  our 
problems. 

I  need  only  add  a  word  to  the  letters  of  others  to  express  my 
belief  that  such  work  as  Professor  Sterrett  proposes  in  Asia 
Minor  will  produce  astonishing  results  in  the  increase  of  our 
knowledge  of  the  history  of  civilization  and  religion.     The  plan 


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is,  in  relation  to  what  we  have  heretofore  done  in  archaeological 
research,  so  audacious  in  its  scope  and  magnitude  that  for  a 
moment  it  made  me  halt.  It  is  something  beyond  the  wildest 
dreams  of  scientific  archaeological  research  which  I  have  ever 
had;  but  just  on  that  account  I  believe  that  it  will  appeal  to 
the  modern  men  of  our  time,  who,  with  their  great  wealth,  are 
handling  scientific  problems  on  a  scale  hitherto  undreamt  of. 
Men  and  institutes  deal  with  them  on  a  great  scale,  to  produce 
important  and  far-reaching  results.  There  are  few  fields  of 
research  which  offer  a  better  opportunity  to  do  this  than  Asia 
Minor.  Personally  I  know  only  its  fringe.  More  intimately  I 
know  Syria ;  and  my  knowledge  of  the  fringe  of  Asia  Minor  and 
Syria  shows  me  that  Avhat  is  to  be  done  must  be  done  quickly, 
very  quickly,  or  else  an  immense  amount  of  valuable  material 
will  be  destroyed,  and  to  do  this  work  quickly  it  must  be  done 
also  on  a  large  scale. 

(Signed)     JOHN  P.  PETERS, 
Leader  of  the  Expedition  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
to  Babylonia,  Excavator  at  Nippur. 

University  of  Virginia, 
Charlottesville,  Va.,  February  17,  1911. 
I  am  profoundly  interested  in  the  whole  thing.  I  only  wish 
I  could  do  more  to  advance  it.  I  feel  that  already  Professor 
Sterrett  has  done  a  good  work  for  the  cause  of  the  higher  cul- 
ture and  the  higher  learning,  and  incidentally,  he  has  done  his 
duty,  which  no  one  else  could  relieve  him  of. 

I  know  what  trouble,  labor,  vexations,  and  disappointments  it 
has  cost,  and  rejoice  that  he  is  proof  against  them  all. 

He  cannot  possibly  fail  if  there  is  any  response  to  the  ideal  in 
our  democracy. 

(Signed)     THOMAS  FITZ  HUGH. 

Hamilton  College, 
Clinton,  N.  Y.,  January  9,  1911. 
The  printed  book  of  endorsements  that  Professor  Sterrett  has 
secured  is  remarkable  not  only  for  the  wealth  of  information  it 


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contains  concerning  Asia  Minor  as  a  field  of  exploration,  but  in 
presenting  the  testimony  of  such  an  assemblage  of  specialists, 
who  speak  from  intimate  knowledge,  each  in  his  own  field  of 
learning;  who  would  certainly  not  stultify  themselves  by  en- 
dorsing an  American  scholar  merely  as  an  act  of  kindly  feeling. 
If  any  one  should  think  for  a  moment  that  Professor  Sterrett  is 
furthering  his  private  ambitions,  he  should  consider  that  there 
are  times  when  modesty  is  folly.  The  testimony  of  W.  M.  Ram- 
say alone  is  a  guarantee  of  his  peculiar  fitness  for  organizing 
and  beginning  so  vast  an  undertaking.  How  few  men  at  his 
time  of  life,  with  such  rich  experience,  would  have  the  energy  to 
undertake  so  arduous  a  task!  Professor  Sterrett  knows  the 
Turkish  language  and  the  people  with  whom  he  would  have  to 
deal,  and  is  familiar  with  the  details  of  the  plan  which  he  out- 
lines, and  he  places  himself  at  the  service  of  those  who  may  be 
willing  to  promote  the  undertaking.  The  establishment  of  such 
a  permanent  plan  of  exploration  would  be  a  means  of  giving 
classical  studies  and  all  ancient  learning  a  tremendous  impetus. 

(Signed).    HERMAN  LOUIS  EBELING. 

Johns  Hopkins  University, 
Baltimore,  January  3,  1911. 
It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  me  that  Professor  Sterrett  has  been 
able  to  make  use  of  my  letter  as  a  general  introduction  to  the 
host  of  endorsements  that  he  has  marshalled  in  his  pamphlet.  I 
venture  to  say  that  no  other  American  could  have  secured  such 
support  as  he  has  received.  My  letter  was  not  a  bit  too 
emphatic. 

(Signed)     B.  L.  GILDERSLEEVE. 


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